Elizabeth Hands (née Herbert)

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• ABSENCE AND DEATH. A PASTORAL. ()
• ABSENCE. ()
• CONTENTMENT. ()
• CORINNA TO LYCIDAS. ()
• CRITICAL FRAGMENTS, ON SOME OF THE ENGLISH POETS. ()
• THE DEATH OF AMNON. A POEM. ()
• An ELEGY. ()
• An ENIGMA. ()
• An EPISTLE. ()
• The FAVOURITE SWAIN. ()
• FRIENDSHIP. An ODE. ()
• LEANDER AND BELINDA. A TALE. ()
• LOB's COURTSHIP. ()
• LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP. A PASTORAL. ()
• OBSERVATION ON THE WORKS of NATURE. ()
• OBSERVATION, On an EVENING. ()
• OBSERVATION. ()
• On a WEDDING. ()
• On an UNSOCIABLE FAMILY. ()
• On CONTEMPLATIVE EASE. ()
• On reading Pope's Eloiza to Abelard. ()
• On the Author's LYING-IN, AUGUST, 1785. ()
• A PASTORAL DIALOGUE. ()
• A PASTORAL SONG. ()
• A PASTORAL. [As Thirsis and Daphne, upon the new hay] ()
• A PASTORAL. [Young Corydon, a blithesome swain] ()
• A PASTORAL. [Young Damon gay, a faithful-hearted swain] ()
• PERPLEXITY. A POEM. ()
• PHILLIS TO DAMON. A SONG. ()
• A POEM, On the Supposition of an Advertisement appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poem, by a Servant Maid. ()
• A POEM, On the Supposition of the Book having been published and read. ()
• REFLECTION on MEDITATION. ()
• REFLECTION. ()
• The RURAL MAID in LONDON, To her FRIEND in the COUNTRY. An EPISTLE. ()
• A SONG. [Far from the woods, alas, I rove] ()
• A SONG. [When Chloe, smiling, gave consent] ()
• A SONG. [Ye swains cease to flatter, our hearts to obtain] ()
• THIRSIS AND DAPHNE. A POEM. ()
• To THIRSIS, On his signifying his intention to lay aside his Hautboy. ()
• The WIDOWER's COURTSHIP. ()
• WIT AND BEAUTY. A PASTORAL. ()
• Written on Their MAJESTIES coming to Kew. ()
• Written while the Author sat on a COOK of HAY. ()
• Written, originally extempore, on seeing a Mad HEIFER run through the Village where the Author lives. ()

• Hands, Elizabeth, 1746-1815. The death of Amnon. A poem. With an appendix: containing pastorals, and other poetical pieces. By Elizabeth Hands. [Coventry]: Printed for the author, by N. Rollason, Coventry, M,DCCLXXXIX., 1789. [40],127,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T141063)
  • THE DEATH OF AMNON. A POEM.
  • A POEM, On the Supposition of an Advertisement appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poem, by a Servant Maid.
  • A POEM, On the Supposition of the Book having been published and read.
  • WIT AND BEAUTY. A PASTORAL.
  • ABSENCE AND DEATH. A PASTORAL.
  • A PASTORAL. [Young Damon gay, a faithful-hearted swain]
  • LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP. A PASTORAL.
  • A PASTORAL. [Young Corydon, a blithesome swain]
  • A PASTORAL. [As Thirsis and Daphne, upon the new hay]
  • OBSERVATION.
  • A PASTORAL DIALOGUE.
  • THIRSIS AND DAPHNE. A POEM.
  • PERPLEXITY. A POEM.
  • A PASTORAL SONG.
  • The FAVOURITE SWAIN.
  • On a WEDDING.
  • LOB's COURTSHIP.
  • The RURAL MAID in LONDON, To her FRIEND in the COUNTRY. An EPISTLE.
  • CORINNA TO LYCIDAS.
  • An EPISTLE.
  • LEANDER AND BELINDA. A TALE.
  • OBSERVATION, On an EVENING.
  • REFLECTION.
  • Written while the Author sat on a COOK of HAY.
  • On CONTEMPLATIVE EASE.
  • Written on Their MAJESTIES coming to Kew.
  • CONTENTMENT.
  • The WIDOWER's COURTSHIP.
  • OBSERVATION ON THE WORKS of NATURE.
  • An ELEGY.
  • FRIENDSHIP. An ODE.
  • PHILLIS TO DAMON. A SONG.
  • On an UNSOCIABLE FAMILY.
  • REFLECTION on MEDITATION.
  • On reading Pope's Eloiza to Abelard.
  • Written, originally extempore, on seeing a Mad HEIFER run through the Village where the Author lives.
  • A SONG. [Ye swains cease to flatter, our hearts to obtain]
  • A SONG. [Far from the woods, alas, I rove]
  • A SONG. [When Chloe, smiling, gave consent]
  • ABSENCE.
  • To THIRSIS, On his signifying his intention to lay aside his Hautboy.
  • On the Author's LYING-IN, AUGUST, 1785.
  • An ENIGMA.
  • CRITICAL FRAGMENTS, ON SOME OF THE ENGLISH POETS.

Source editions

• Hands, Elizabeth, 1746-1815. The death of Amnon. A poem. With an appendix: containing pastorals, and other poetical pieces. By Elizabeth Hands. [Coventry]: Printed for the author, by N. Rollason, Coventry, M,DCCLXXXIX., 1789. [40],127,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T141063)

Bibliography

ODNB 45851

Reference works

• Baines, Paul, Julian Ferraro, Pat Rogers, eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 165-166. Print.
• Radcliffe, David H., ed. Elizabeth Hands (1746-1815). Spenser and the Tradition: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830. Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2006. Web. 4 Aug 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20170908014740/http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?recordid=1159.
• Todd, Janet, ed. A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660-1800. Paperback edition, revised. Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987. 149-150. Print.

Criticism

• Backscheider, Paula R. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005. 158-161 and passim. Print.
• Dereli, Cynthia. In search of a poet: the life and work of Elizabeth Hands. Women's Writing 8(1) (2001): 169-182. Print.
• Landry, Donna. The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739-1796. Cambridge: CUP, 1990. 186-209. Print.
• Steedman, Carolyn. Poetical Maids and Cooks Who Wrote. Eighteenth-Century Studies 39(1) (Fall 2005): 1-27. Print.