ABSTRACT
Samuel Law's single publication, A Domestic Winter Piece: A Poem, Exhibiting a Full View of the Author's Dwelling Place in the Winter-Season, In Two Parts. Interspersed with a Great Variety of Entertaining Reflections, provides what little biographical information is known of the author. He lived in West Yorkshire, near the border with Lancashire. Some records of a Samuel Law exist in local archives; these indicate that he may have worked as a clog maker as well as a weaver, thus perhaps allowing Law to be counted among the confraternity of shoemaker poets. Law makes no pretensions about his education and poetic preparation. The religious themes of the poem, Law's emphasis on the moral importance of his self-improvement, and the lack of archival records pertaining to baptism or marriage for Law suggest that he might have been Methodist.
