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Poems breathed forth by the nobel Hadassas, and The Unfortunate Florinda, by Lady Hesther Pulter : Miscellany c.1645-1665.
Literary Manuscripts Leeds: Sources from The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pulter, Lady Hester, author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (168 ff. inscribed of 169 bound) and 17 ff. loose sheets.
- Summary:
- A collection of poetry, beginning on flyleaf and then on ff.2r-130v; from back, inverted, on f.1r, 2v-36v, is an incomplete prose romance, The Unfortunate Florinda. Detached, previusly inserted matter includes 3 ff. (paginated 3-7) of 62 heroic couplets from Abelard to Eloisa, identified as by Judith Madan, ca.1720; and 3 ff. bearing genealogies, arms and an account of "Ley, Earl of Marleborough"
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference:Lt q 32
- Poems predominantly in a scribal hand with insertions and revisions in two other hands, one of them apparently Hesther Pulter's. Lady Hesther Pulter was the sixth daughter of James Ley, 1st earl of Marlborough. F.1r bears a note of the author being aged 71 in 1667 and dying March or April 1678 aged 82. Selected poems from the manuscript (and a facsimile page) are printed in "Early Modern Women's Manuscript Poetry", ed. Jill Seal Millman and Gillian Wright (Manchester UP, 2005), pp. 111-27
- Local Notes:
- Bound in reversed calf, spine lettered.
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