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MARY BAILEY
Further Reading
Mary Bailey
Bailey, Mary, Poems, Humourous and Sentimental, by Mary Bailey, Kingston Place, Nottingham (Nottingham: C. N. Wright, 1826); second edition (Nottingham: Samuel Bennett, 1826); original copies of both are held in the Local Studies Collection, Nottingham Libraries, albeit in fragile condition. No other copies are known.
Bailey, Mary, (obituary), Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties, Friday 29 August 1828, p. 3 (reproduced above, Appendix).
`Lost Poet of the Industrial Age, Nottingham Post, 27 June 2013.
Whatman, Dawn Carol, 'Mary Bailey, Poverty and the Lace Trade, in 'Recovering British Labouring-class Women Poets, 1780-1837', PhD dissertation, Nottingham Trent University, 2018.
Nottingham Working-class Poets
Baird, John, Follow the Moon and Stars: a literary journey
through Nottinghamshire (Nottingham: Five Leaves, 2021). Binfield, Kevin (ed.), Writings of the Luddites (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2004).
Collins, Philip, 'Thomas Cooper the Chartist: Byron and the "Poets of the Poor"', Nottingham Byron Lectures 1969, https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/crlc/docu ments/foundationlectures/collins.pdf [accessed 22/07/22]
Edlin-White, Rowena, Exploring Nottinghamshire Writers (Nottingham: Five Leaves, 2017).
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Contents
To a Lady who visited the author when she was in great distress 14
To a Lady who desired me to pray for the death of youngest child 17
Petition to the British Fair 19
On the Death of the Revd. Dr. Wylde, late of Nottingham 21
Lines, Written in July, on Widow Hind's garden, at Hints, in Staffordshire 26
Lines On the Death of a Gentleman of Basford 31
The Author to Her Infant Twins 35
Appendix: Mary Bailey's Obituary 37
Index of titles and first lines 42
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