Abstract:Abstract:This article focuses on the manuscript of Lady Hester Pulter, a bundle containing 130 sheets found in 1996 in Leeds by Mark Robson, containing two series of poems and another 30 pages of a romance. The main objective of this paper is to set forth the reasons spurring the writer not to disclose her literary work, by mapping out the cultural and socio-political milieu of her time. To this end, it first addresses various laws that were enacted to exert control over literature, such as the banning… Show more
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