Fugitive Pieces. de DODSWORTH (Mrs. [Anna]):

Canterbury: Printed [for private distribution] by Simmons and Kirby, 1802. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 183 x 117 mms., pp. iv, 107 [108 blank], contemporary calf, gilt border on covers, spine gilt in compartments (slightly dried); front joint cracked but firm, top and base of spine chipped. The British female poet Anna Dodsworth (née Barrell; c. 1740–1801) is often described as "Romantic," but her poems are markedly different in tone and vocabulary from those whom readers and scholars usually regard as "Romantic." Born in the year 1740, she died in 1801; her husband, Frank Dodsworth , Vicar of Dodington, Kent, whom she married when she was 17 or 18, arranged for the posthumous publication of this volume of poetry, printed in a limited number for private distribution. One of her poems, "To Matthew Dodsworth, Esq., On a Noble Captain Declaring that His Finger Was Broken by a Gate" has been printed in various anthologies. Dodsworth's poems have since been anthologized in Women Romantic Poets: 1785-1832 (1992), British Women Poets of the 19th Century (1996), and British Satire, 1785-1840 (2003). C. R. Johnson, C. R. Provincial poetry 1789-1839, p. 83..