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Piers, [Sarah], Lady.

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Description

  • Piers, [Sarah], Lady.
George for Britain. A Poem. For Bernard Lintott, 1714

Provenance

Ralph Bosville, inscription on front endpaper; Jasper Fish, ownership inscription on title

Literature

Foxon P275; Greer, Kissing the Rod, pp.445-6.

Catalogue Note

Sarah, Lady Piers was wife of Sir George Piers (1670-1720), soldier and Clerk of the Privy Seal. She was encouraged to write poems (initially under the sobriquet "Urania") by her close friend the dramatist Catherine Trotter, a friendship that was satirised as "beyond what Nature design'd" by Delariviere Manley. 

This volume is inscribed, quite possibly by the author, "To my Honest Dear Kinsman, Mr: Ralph Bosville".