![]() The Poetess Archive Database now contains a bibliography of over 4,000 entries for works by and about writers working in and against the "poetess tradition," the extraordinarily popular, but much criticized, flowery poetry written in Britain and America between 17. They achieved a place of prominence in virtually every middle-class household. Writings in the poetess tradition were disseminated in myriad collections: miscellanies, beauties, literary annuals, gift books. Much of it composed during what can be called the "bull market" of poetry's popularity( 1), late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century popular poetry was often written in what came to be designated an "effeminate" style, whether written by men or women. This archive constitutes a resource for studying the literary history of popular British and American poetry. ![]() ![]() About Poetess Introduction to the Poetess Archive ![]()
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