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Esther Lewis (poet)
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Esther Lewis (1716–1794) was an English poet who published in the fashionable Bath Journal and occasionally in the Gentleman's Magazine. She is also known by her pen name of Sylvia and her later married name of Esther Clark.
Quotes
Are simple women only fit To dress, to darn, to flower, or knit, To mind the distaff, or the spit? Why are the needle and the pen Thought incompatible by men?
A Mirror for Detractors (1754), l. 146
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Category:1716 births
Category:1794 deaths
Category:Poets from England
Category:Women authors from England