Mary Barber

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Names

First Name:

Mary

Last Name(s):

Barber

Gender:

female

Bio Dates

Birth Year:

1685

Death Year:

1755

Death Year Approximated

Locations

Nationality:

Birthplace:

Other Locations:

Transatlantic:

No

Class and Labor

Laboring-Class Status: Uncertain

Imprisonment:

In 1734 she was arrested ‘for possession of manuscript copies of some of Swift’s political poems attacking Walpole's administration’ (ODNB); she was also accused of (and never cleared for) forging Swift’s signature on a letter about her to Queen Caroline

References and Sources

References and Sources:

Biblio Texts:

161-62

117-18

18

296-300

38

194

115

404

868-9

Item 357 and 107 (image)

Other Digital References:

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Other Analog References:

Christopher Fanning, ‘The Voices of the Dependent Poet: The Case of Mary Barber’, Women’s Writing, 8, no. 1 (2001), 81-97

Mary Barber's Publications

Title	Publication Date	Edition	Other Editions	Subscription Description	Digitized or Digital Editions	Additional Notes
Tunbrigialia: Or, Tunbridge Miscellanies, for the Year 1730	1730				Google Books
Poems on Several Occasions	1734	1	Edition: 2 Publication Date: 1735	Over 900 subscribers		Included 6 posthumous and previously unpublished poems by Constantia Grierson
Poems by Eminent Ladies	1755				Archive.org

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Mary Barber's Publications

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