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Winscom is an articulate woman that utilizes metaphorical and ironic verbal cues to convey her multitude of themes. She gives her strong opinion on religion, marriage, slavery, and her infamous headaches. Her lack of recognition may be due to the fact that she was not considered as an British or English writer. It appears that scholars focusing on English or British writing ignore her, while those concentrating on Wales and Welsh literature consider her a significant author. This could also be interpreted to suggest that exclusively provincial authors – i.e., those who refused to engage with the London literary marketplace – do not register in overviews of English or British writing and have to be appropriated to some other narrative. according to Catherine Brennan, Winscom effaced her Welshness increasingly in later editions of her poems. Sarah Prescott argues that Winscom is one of a category of women writers who conceived of themselves as specifically Welsh in terms of various national imaginings. Winscom uses the typically Welsh genre of the hymn for female poetic self-expression. Both of these critics rely mostly on textual analysis rather than biographical enquiry to come to their conclusions, and this is certainly a valid approach

It was believed that Cave was incredibly humble in regards to her support base. This supported via her book Poems on Various Subjects: Entertaining, Elegiac, and Religious in her address to her subscribers. Ye gen'rous patrons of a female's muse, ere you my works with studious eye peruse The first edition is dedicated in a poem ‘To the Subscribers’, and mentions the author's humble admiration for the ‘Celebrated Poetesses’ Anna Seward, Anne Steele, and Hannah More, whom Cave does not presume to emulate. She also addresses the perennial topic of a reader who disbelieves that she can, as a woman, really have written her works herself. according to The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry: 17Th and 18th Centuries She became quite popular among the wales community and adored by nearly 2000 subscribers after the publication of her book.