ML
first met Bridget Freemantle
, the clergyman's daughter who became her patron and was instrumental in enabling her to be an author.
Greene, Richard. Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry. Clarendon Press, 1993.
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Textual Production
Mary Leapor
It is hard to overestimate the importance, for ML
's output and for the survival of her work, of her patron Bridget Freemantle
, who appears in her writing as Artemisia. From September 1745...
