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
For 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...