Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806

by Mary Waldron

Ann Yearsley was an English poet, playwright, and novelist who began her adult life as a milkwoman and later became the chief support of her family through her writing. This biography offers the most thoroughly researched account of the complex political and social causes of Yearsley’s exclusion from the annals of literature.

360 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1996