She wrote in response to Duck's The Thresher's Labour, 1730, incensed to find a male poet of her own class sneering at women as inferior workers and frivolous gossips and time-wasters. Having written, she...
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Elizabeth Cellier
The title is variously given: some copies have A Letter to Dr —, Concerning the Colledg of Midwives; Together with the Scheme for a Cradle Hospital, for Exposed Children. She wrote it within four...