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Author Biography

Susan Carlile is the author of Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind (University of Toronto Press, 2018). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the British Academy, Chawton House Library, and the Armstrong Browning Library and has edited Masters of the Marketplace: British Women Novelists of the 1750s (Lehigh University Press, 2010) and co-edited Charlotte Lennox’s 1758 novel Henrietta (University Press of Kentucky, 2008) with Ruth Perry. She is Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach.

Abstract

Scholarship has tended to place its focus on Phillis Wheatley Peters’ unsuccessful efforts in America, followed by an account of one British figure, the Countess of Huntingdon, who patronized the publication of Poems on Various Subjects in London in 1773. However, the chronology of the British campaign, the modes of print publication, and the locations in which Phillis Wheatley Peters’ words were published deserve closer attention. This essay highlights previously unknown or unremarked upon British publications outside London, the Drewry Derby Mercury, the Ipswich Journal, the Hibernian, and John Gillies’s Memoirs of the Life of the Reverend George Whitefield, that were part of this campaign. By delineating dates and methods, we can see that Wheatley Peters found not just one publisher and one wealthy patron but supportive nodes in London, across England, and in Scotland and Ireland.

Keywords

Phillis Wheatley Peters, periodicals, British print culture, Phillis Wheatley Peters, British periodicals, poetry, booksellers, Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, Archibald Bell, George Whitefield, England, Ireland, Scotland

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