Esther Lewis (poet)

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

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Esther Lewis (poet) on Wikipedia