{"product_id":"the-galesia-trilogy-and-selected-manuscript-poems-of-jane-barker-9780195086508","title":"The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jane Valentine Barker | Carol S. Wilson | Susanne Woods\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNovelist, religious dissident, political poet, and sometime Jacobite spy, Jane Barker wrote on a remarkable variety of subjects and displayed a facility with an equally remarkable variety of genres. Most extraordinary, though, was her ability to manipulate the objects of female domesticity, an embroidered patch-work screen for example, as literary conceits to rival those of her male contemporaries. \"A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies\" (1723) and \"The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen (1726), both part of \u003cem\u003eThe Galesia Trilogy\u003c\/em\u003e, attest to her talents; they include realistic stories and romances interspersed with poems, hymns, recipes, and religious and philosophical reflections on the turbulent social, economic, and political scene of early eighteenth-century England. Both works, when first published, achieved immense popularity. This volume reprints the entire \u003cem\u003eGalesia Trilogy\u003c\/em\u003e as well as a selection of poems from the \u003cem\u003eMagdalen\u003c\/em\u003e manuscript.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47591473840279,"sku":"9780195086508","price":12875.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780195086508.webp?v=1774973285","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-galesia-trilogy-and-selected-manuscript-poems-of-jane-barker-9780195086508","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}