What Is Elizabeth Hands's Response To The Death Of Amnon

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Elizabeth Hands was an Eighteenth Century low-class poet. While her life is not well know, she is the discovered author of ‘Death of Amnon’, a famous poem of the time. Many criticized Hands for her social class, and many believed that she could not write anything worth reading. In response to their negativity, Hands wrote ‘A Poem, On the Supposition of an Advertisement appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant-Main’ (Supposition I) and ‘A Poem, On the Supposition of the Book having been Published and Read’ (Supposition II). The two poems are about the varying responses pertaining Hands’ ‘Death of Amnon’ poem. The poems reflect Hands’ belief that social class has no place in dictating writing.
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