'Lactilla Tends her Fav'rite Cow': Ecocritical Readings of Animals and Women in Eighteenth-Century British Labouring-Class Women's Poetry by Anne Milne

Authors

Dometa Wiegand, Iowa State UniversityFollow

Author Biography

Dometa Wiegand is an Assistant Professor of English literature at Iowa State University, specializing in Romanticism. She has published on women poets of the eighteenth-century, Coleridge, Romanticism and the history of science. She is currently completing a study on astronomy and the Romantic poets.

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Keywords

animals, Ann Yearsley, ecocriticism, Elizabeth Hands, Janet Little, laborers, Mary Collier, Mary Leapor, women's poetry

Recommended Citation

Wiegand, Dometa (2011) "'Lactilla Tends her Fav'rite Cow': Ecocritical Readings of Animals and Women in Eighteenth-Century British Labouring-Class Women's Poetry by Anne Milne," ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830: Vol.1: Iss.1, Article 8.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.1.1.7
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol1/iss1/8