Poetry 

(PUB) Priscilla Pointon was born in Lichfield, and blind from the age of 12, married I. Pickering, a saddler in Chester in 1788.She published her first volume of poetry in Birmingham in 1770 as Poems on several occasions by amassing a remarkable listof more than a thousand subscribers. On her husband's death in 1794 her desolate state led her to seek subscribers for a second volume of poetry. This collection was edited by Joseph Weston of Solihull, who describes the problem of deciphering a mutilated and partly illegible manuscript which had been shown to many potential subscribers.||(CON) The poems include one on the death of William Seward, and two addressed to Anna Seward; editor's preface signed and dated: Joseph Weston. Solihull, May 29, 1794; 'Poetical sketches, by John Morfitt, .. With additional pieces, chiefly by Joseph Weston' with separate titlepage, pagination and register, and includes 'Additional poems' with separate pagination.||(REF) Jackson, Romantic poetry by women, p. 259; Lonsdale, Eighteenth-century women poets, pp. 272-3; see estc.bl.uk;||(PRV) With inscription' Elizabeth Harbourne, from her dear mother, January 26th 1829' and a second in a different hand: 'These poems are what they call in Ireland 'Bletherum-Skaite''.||(BIN) Contemporary tree sheep, neatly rebacked.||(RES) Mrs. Pickering = Priscilla Pointon. Cf. Todd, J. British and American women writers.||(PRI) Price from imprint: Price Five Shillings.||(OWN) On loan S. L. 

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