Anna Miller, Lady, is best-known as a patron of poetry during the later eighteenth century. She published a travel book, and a serial collection of the poems entered for the performance-oriented contests at which she presided (including poems of her own).
Milestones
1741 Anna or Anne Riggs (later ALM) was born in
London.
20 September 1770 ALM dated the first letter she sent her
mother after leaving
Paris on her way to
Italy with her
husband, which became her travel book.
By March 1775 ALM both edited and contributed to the first volume of
Poetical Amusements at a Villa near Bath, to which she later added a series of three more volumes, the last by May 1781.
1778 An anonymous 18-page pamphlet entitled
On Novelty: and On Trifles, and Triflers. Poetical Amusements at a Villa near Bath reads like comment on ALM's Batheaston Vase; it is not clear why library catalogues ascribe it to her authorship.
By May 1781 ALM issued the final volume of
Poetical Amusements at a Villa near Bath.
