Copy, untitled.
Entitled (f. 1r) Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas
and the poems described as Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers
, one section headed The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes
, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82
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Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.