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In the 1600s Hester Pulter wondered, 'Why must I forever be confined?' – now her poems are online for all to see

  • Written by Samantha Snively, PhD Candidate in Early Modern Literature, University of California, Davis
In the 1600s Hester Pulter wondered, 'Why must I forever be confined?' – now her poems are online for all to seeFor centuries, Pulter's manuscript lay untouched at the University of Leeds' Brotherton Library.University of Leeds Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt q 32, CC BY-NC-SA

In 1996, a graduate student named Mark Robson was creating a digital catalog of the University of Leeds’ Brotherton Library when he discovered a small manuscript on the...

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