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See also:WINCHELSEA, See also:ANNE See also:FINCH, COUNTESS OF (1661-1720) , See also:English author, daughter of See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Kingsmill of Sidmonton, near See also:Southampton; was See also:born in See also:April 1661. Five months later her See also:father died, and her See also:mother married in 1662 Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Ogle. See also:Lady Ogle died in 1664, and nothing is heard of her daughter Anne until 1683, when she is mentioned as one of the maids of See also:honour of See also:Mary of See also:Modena, duchess of See also:York. She married in May 1684 See also:Colonel Heneage Finch, who was attached to the See also:duke of York's See also:household. To him she addressed poems and versified epistles, in which he figures as See also:Daphnis and she as Ardelia. At the Revolution Heneage Finch refused the See also:oath of See also:allegiance to William and Mary, and he and his wife had no fixed See also:home until they were invited in 1690 to Eastwell See also:Park, See also:Kent, by Finch's See also:nephew See also:Charles, 4th See also:earl of Winchelsea, on whose See also:death in 1712 Heneage Finch succeeded to the earldom. The countess of Winchelsea died in See also:London on the 5th cf See also:August 1720, leaving no issue, her See also:husband surviving until 1726.
Lady Winchelsea's poems contain many copies of See also:verse addressed to her See also:friends and contemporaries. She was to some extent a follower of the " matchless Orinda " in the fervour of her friendships. During her lifetime she published her poem " The See also:Spleen " in Gildon's See also:Miscellany (1701) and a See also:volume of Poems in 1713 which included a tragedy called See also:Aristomenes. With See also:Alexander See also:Pope she was on friendly terms, and one of the seven commendatory poems printed with the 1717 edition of his See also:works was by her. But in the See also:farce Three See also:Hours after See also:Marriage (1717) attributed to See also:Gay, but really the See also:work of Pope, See also:Arbuthnot and Gay, she is ridiculed as the learned lady, See also:Phoebe Clinket, a See also:character assigned to Pope's See also:hand. Lady Winchelsea's poems were almost forgotten when See also:Wordsworth in the " See also:Essay, supplementary to the See also:Preface " of his Poems (1815), See also:drew attentionto her nature-See also:poetry, asserting that with the exception of Pope's " See also:Windsor See also:Forest " and her " Nocturnal See also:Reverie," English poetry between See also:Paradise Lost and See also:Thomson's Seasons did not See also:present " a single new See also:image of See also:external nature." Words-See also:worth sent at See also:Christmas 1819 a MS. of extracts from Lady Winchelsea and other writers to Lady Mary Lowther, and his See also:correspondence with Alexander See also:Dyce contains some See also:minute See also:criticism and appreciation of her poetry.
Mr See also:Edmund See also:Gosse wrote a See also:notice of her poems for T. H. See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
Ward's English Poets (vol. iii., 1880), and in 1884 came into See also:possession of a MS. volume of her poems. A See also:complete edition of her verse, The Poems of Anne, Countess of Winchelsea, was edited by See also:Myra See also:Reynolds (See also:Chicago, 1903) with an exhaustive essay. See also E. Gosse, See also:Gossip in a Library (1891), and E. See also:Dowden, Essays, See also:Modern and Elizabethan. Wordsworth's See also:anthology for Lady Mary Lowther was first printed in 1905 (See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford). Some of her work remains in MS. in the possession of See also:Professor Dowden.
End of Article: WINCHELSEA, ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF (1661-1720)
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