Holly Langstaff (@hollylangstaff.bsky.social)

I wrote about the remarkably accomplished couplets of Mary Leapor, an eighteenth-century servant who wrote a brilliantly witty poem from the point of view of a nail, and died at the age of 24. Sad to imagine what she might have written if she had lived to the age of her hero, Alexander Pope (56).

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The Polish'd Pewter The unique poetry of an eighteenth-century servant https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/the-polishd-pewter