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ECPA builds on the electronic texts created by the Text Creation Partnership from Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). Key features browse authors by names, dates of birth, or gender; browse works ( text versions) by titles, first lines, themes, or genres; view high-quality digital facsimiles of select source editions of the texts used by ECPA; use the built-in digital tools (reading, analysis, visualization, modelling) to augment the close reading process of individual poems; contribute and share textual notes and glosses, readings and interpretations, observations and suggestions, via easy-to-use forms (just click on any line or word); use the collaborative potential in the classroom to increase student engagement with the texts; consult the resources (bibliography, chronology, gallery, etc.) for your further engagement with the field. Recent additions Elizabeth Hands (née Herbert) (bap. 5 June 1746 - June 1815) Works in ECPA ABSENCE AND DEATH. A PASTORAL. () ABSENCE. () CONTENTMENT. () CORINNA TO LYCIDAS. () CRITICAL FRAGMENTS, ON SOME OF THE ENGLISH POETS. () THE DEATH OF AMNON. A POEM. () An ELEGY. () An ENIGMA. () An EPISTLE. () The FAVOURITE SWAIN. () FRIENDSHIP. An ODE. () LEANDER AND BELINDA. A TALE. () LOB's COURTSHIP. () LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP. A PASTORAL. () OBSERVATION ON THE WORKS of NATURE. () OBSERVATION, On an EVENING. () OBSERVATION. () On a WEDDING. () On an UNSOCIABLE FAMILY. () On CONTEMPLATIVE EASE. () On reading Pope's Eloiza to Abelard. () On the Author's LYING-IN, AUGUST, 1785. () A PASTORAL DIALOGUE. () A PASTORAL SONG. () A PASTORAL. [As Thirsis and Daphne, upon the new hay] () A PASTORAL. [Young Corydon, a blithesome swain] () A PASTORAL. [Young Damon gay, a faithful-hearted swain] () PERPLEXITY. A POEM. () PHILLIS TO DAMON. A SONG. () A POEM, On the Supposition of an Advertisement appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poem, by a Servant Maid. () A POEM, On the Supposition of the Book having been published and read. () REFLECTION on MEDITATION. () REFLECTION. () The RURAL MAID in LONDON, To her FRIEND in the COUNTRY. An EPISTLE. () A SONG. [Far from the woods, alas, I rove] () A SONG. [When Chloe, smiling, gave consent] () A SONG. [Ye swains cease to flatter, our hearts to obtain] () THIRSIS AND DAPHNE. A POEM. () To THIRSIS, On his signifying his intention to lay aside his Hautboy. () The WIDOWER's COURTSHIP. () WIT AND BEAUTY. A PASTORAL. () Written on Their MAJESTIES coming to Kew. () Written while the Author sat on a COOK of HAY. () Written, originally extempore, on seeing a Mad HEIFER run through the Village where the Author lives. () Hands, Elizabeth, 1746-1815. The death of Amnon. A poem. With an appendix: containing pastorals, and other poetical pieces. By Elizabeth Hands. [Coventry]: Printed for the author, by N. Rollason, Coventry, M,DCCLXXXIX., 1789. [40],127,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T141063) THE DEATH OF AMNON. A POEM. A POEM, On the Supposition of an Advertisement appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poem, by a Servant Maid. A POEM, On the Supposition of the Book having been published and read. WIT AND BEAUTY. A PASTORAL. ABSENCE AND DEATH. A PASTORAL. A PASTORAL. [Young Damon gay, a faithful-hearted swain] LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP. A PASTORAL. A PASTORAL. [Young Corydon, a blithesome swain] A PASTORAL. [As Thirsis and Daphne, upon the new hay] OBSERVATION. A PASTORAL DIALOGUE. THIRSIS AND DAPHNE. A POEM. PERPLEXITY. A POEM. A PASTORAL SONG. The FAVOURITE SWAIN. On a WEDDING. LOB's COURTSHIP. The RURAL MAID in LONDON, To her FRIEND in the COUNTRY. An EPISTLE. CORINNA TO LYCIDAS. An EPISTLE. LEANDER AND BELINDA. A TALE. OBSERVATION, On an EVENING. REFLECTION. Written while the Author sat on a COOK of HAY. On CONTEMPLATIVE EASE. Written on Their MAJESTIES coming to Kew. CONTENTMENT. The WIDOWER's COURTSHIP. OBSERVATION ON THE WORKS of NATURE. An ELEGY. FRIENDSHIP. An ODE. PHILLIS TO DAMON. A SONG. On an UNSOCIABLE FAMILY. REFLECTION on MEDITATION. On reading Pope's Eloiza to Abelard. Written, originally extempore, on seeing a Mad HEIFER run through the Village where the Author lives. A SONG. [Ye swains cease to flatter, our hearts to obtain] A SONG. [Far from the woods, alas, I rove] A SONG. [When Chloe, smiling, gave consent] ABSENCE. To THIRSIS, On his signifying his intention to lay aside his Hautboy. On the Author's LYING-IN, AUGUST, 1785. An ENIGMA. CRITICAL FRAGMENTS, ON SOME OF THE ENGLISH POETS. Source editions Hands, Elizabeth, 1746-1815. The death of Amnon. A poem. With an appendix: containing pastorals, and other poetical pieces. By Elizabeth Hands. [Coventry]: Printed for the author, by N. Rollason, Coventry, M,DCCLXXXIX., 1789. [40],127,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T141063) Bibliography ODNB 45851 Reference works Baines, Paul, Julian Ferraro, Pat Rogers, eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 165-166. Print. Radcliffe, David H., ed. Elizabeth Hands (1746-1815). Spenser and the Tradition: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830. Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2006. Web. 4 Aug 2020. http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?recordid=1159. Todd, Janet, ed. A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660-1800. Paperback edition, revised. Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987. 149-150. Print. Criticism Backscheider, Paula R. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005. 158-161 and passim. Print. Dereli, Cynthia. In search of a poet: the life and work of Elizabeth Hands. Women's Writing 8(1) (2001): 169-182. Print. Landry, Donna. The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739-1796. Cambridge: CUP, 1990. 186-209. Print. Steedman, Carolyn. Poetical Maids and Cooks Who Wrote. 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