This study offers a timely and necessary reassessment of the careers of Ann Yearsley and Hannah More. Making use of newly-discovered letters and poems, Andrews provides a full analysis of the breakdown of the two writers' affiliation and compares it to other labouring-class relationships based on patronage.

Kerri Andrews

Introduction, Kerri Andrews; Chapter 1 Hannah More and David Garrick: Patronage and Friendship, Kerri Andrews; Chapter 2 A Middling-Class Poet-Maker: Hannah More and Ann Yearsley, Kerri Andrews; Chapter 3 Patronage, Gratitude and Friendship, 1785-90, Kerri Andrews; Chapter 4 'Such is Bristol's Soul': Patronage and Rivalry, Kerri Andrews; Chapter 5 Novel Writing and the French Revolution, Kerri Andrews; Chapter 6 Romantic Bristol: Creative Networks in the 1790s, Kerri Andrews; Chapter 7 Afterword, Kerri Andrews;