Mary Leapor
Dr Jennifer Batt talks about Mary Leapor, an 18th Century kitchen maid who wrote accomplished verses and won accolades from literary society.
Date Published:
27 March 2012
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Contributors:
Jennifer Batt
In Collection(s):
Mary Leapor, Labouring-class writing, Economic and Social Literary Criticism, Celebrating women’s writing: the pen in their hands
Keywords:
#greatwriters, eighteenth-century, literature, great writers inspire, mary leapor, poem
Cite:
Mary Leapor by Mary Leapor at https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via https://dev.writersinspire.it.ox.ac.uk/content/mary-leapor-0. Published on 27 March 2012. Accessed on 14 May 2026.
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