Mary Collier

Mary Collier
Title page of Mary Collier's The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck (London, 1739)
Born9 October 1688
West Sussex
Died20 October 1762 (1762-10-21) (aged 74)
Resting placeAlton, Hampshire
OccupationWasher-woman
LanguageEnglish
NationalityEnglish
Notable workThe Woman's Labour (1739)

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Mary Collier (1688–1762) was an English poet, perhaps best known for The Woman's Labour, a poem described by one commentator as a "plebeian female georgic that is also a protofeminist polemic."