Mary Collier

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• AN ELEGY UPON STEPHEN DUCK. ()
• AN ELEGY, On the much lamented Death of NORTON POWLETT Esq; Who departed this life at Petersfield June the 4th 1741. ()
• AN EPISTOLARY ANSWER To an Exciseman, Who doubted her being the Author of the Washerwoman's Labour. ()
• The First and Second Chapters of the First Book of Samuel Versified. ()
• A Gentleman's Request to the Author on Reading The Happy Husband and the Old Batchelor: ()
• The HAPPY HUSBAND, And The OLD BATCHELOR. A Dialogue. ()
• ON The Marriage of GEORGE the Third. Wrote in the Seventy-Second Year of her Age. ()
• Spectator VOL. the Fifth. Numb. 375. VERSIFIED. ()
• THE THREE WISE SENTENCES, From the First Book of ESDRAS Chap. III. and IV. ()
• THE Woman's Labour: TO Mr. STEPHEN DUCK. ()

• Collier, Mary, c.1690-c.1762. Poems, on Several Occasions, by Mary Collier, Author of the Washerwoman's Labour, with some remarks on Her Life. Winchester: Printed by Mary Ayres; for the Author. MDCCLXII., 1762. 68p. (ESTC T125590)
  • THE Woman's Labour: TO Mr. STEPHEN DUCK.
  • THE THREE WISE SENTENCES, From the First Book of ESDRAS Chap. III. and IV.
  • AN EPISTOLARY ANSWER To an Exciseman, Who doubted her being the Author of the Washerwoman's Labour.
  • The HAPPY HUSBAND, And The OLD BATCHELOR. A Dialogue.
  • A Gentleman's Request to the Author on Reading The Happy Husband and the Old Batchelor:
  • The First and Second Chapters of the First Book of Samuel Versified.
  • AN ELEGY UPON STEPHEN DUCK.
  • AN ELEGY, On the much lamented Death of NORTON POWLETT Esq; Who departed this life at Petersfield June the 4th 1741.
  • Spectator VOL. the Fifth. Numb. 375. VERSIFIED.
  • ON The Marriage of GEORGE the Third. Wrote in the Seventy-Second Year of her Age.

Source editions

• Collier, Mary, c.1690-c.1762. Poems, on Several Occasions, by Mary Collier, Author of the Washerwoman's Labour, with some remarks on Her Life. Winchester: Printed by Mary Ayres; for the Author. MDCCLXII., 1762. 68p. (ESTC T125590)

Bibliography

ODNB 37303; DMI 1429; DLB 95

Editions

• Cochran, Peter, ed. The Farmer's Boy by Robert Bloomfield: A Parallel Text Edition, with The Thresher's Labour by Stephen Duck and The Woman's Labour by Mary Collier. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2014. Print.
• Ferguson, Moira, introd. Duck, The Thresher's Labour, and Collier, The Woman's Labour. (Facsimile ed.). Augustan Reprint Society, vol. 230. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Univ. of California, 1985. Print.
• Thompson, E. P. and Marian Sugden, eds. The Thresher's Labour by Stephen Duck. The Woman's Labour by Mary Collier. London: Merlin Press, 1989. Print.

Reference works

• Baines, Paul, Julian Ferraro, Pat Rogers, eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 70-71. Print.
• Todd, Janet, ed. A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660-1800. Paperback edition, revised. Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987. 90-91. Print.

Criticism

• Christmas, William J. The Lab'ring Muses: Work, Writing and the Social Order in English Plebeian Poetry, 1730-1830. Newark and London: University of Delaware Press, 2001. 115-129. Print.
• Fellers, Kathy G. A Study in Contrasts: Mary Collier and Mary Leapor's Diverse Contributions to Eighteenth-century British Laboring-Class Women's Poetry. Unpub. doct. diss., University of Houston, 2013. Print. [Dissertation Abstracts International 75(1), 2014]
• Ferguson, Moira. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 7-25. Print.
• Goodridge, John. Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 1995. 1-88. Print.
• Goodridge, John. Stephen Duck, The Thresher's Labour, and Mary Collier, The Woman's Labour. Gerrard, Christine, ed. A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006. 209-222. Print.
• Klaus, H. Gustav. Stephen Duck und Mary Collier. Plebejische Kontro-Verse über Frauenarbeit vor 250 Jahren. Gulliver 10 (1981): 115-123. Print.
• Krishnamurthy, Aruna. 'The Constant Action of Our Lab'ring Hands': Mary Collier's Demystification of Work and Womanhood in the Early Eighteenth Century. Boyd, Diane E. and Marta Kvande, eds. Everyday Revolutions: Eighteenth-Century Women Transforming Public and Private. Newark, DE: U of Delaware P, 2008. 67-93. Print.
• Landry, Donna. The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739-1796. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990. 56-77. Print.
• Milne, Anne. 'Lactilla tends her fav'rite cow': ecocritical readings of animals and women in eighteenth-century British labouring-class women's poetry. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2008. Print.
• Milne, Anne. Gender, class, and the beehive: Mary Collier's The Woman's Labour (1739) as nature poem. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 8(2) (2001): 109-129. Print.
• Thompson, Peggy. Duck, Collier, and the ideology of verse forms. Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 44(3) (2004): 505-523. Print.