Abstract
Dated New Year's Day 1700, Jane Barker's poem ‘To Her Royal Highness the Princess Lewis Marya, Princess of Bavaria […]’ addresses the (German) Stuart Princess who was Abbess of the Royal Cistercian Abbey of Maubuisson. Barker's poem reflects her interest in female monasticism and echoes a conventional line of Jacobite compliment regarding the Stuarts’ readiness to exchange temporal for spiritual crowns. In comparing the royal nun with ‘Solomon[’]s wise daughter’—a mysterious allusion that seems to relate to a passage in i Kings 4—Barker may be invoking a now forgotten tradition among the English Benedictine nuns of Pontoise, with whom the poet was on friendly terms. Thomas Fuller's Pisgah-Sight of Palestine is an alternative, or complementary, possible source.
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