Anne Finch

01 April 1661 - 05 August 1720

Standard Name: Finch, Anne

Birth Name: Anne Kingsmill

Married Name: Anne Finch

Titled: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

Pseudonym: Ardelia

Pseudonym: Areta

Pseudonym: a Lady

Used Form: Anne Finch, Lady Winchilsea

AF is an important poet of the Restoration and early eighteenth century—highly versatile and original. She wrote in many genres: fables (a high proportion of her poems, giving scope to her humour and complexity), closet drama, elegies, political, religious, personal, and proto-feminist pieces, and a notable pindaric ode which was her single most famous publication. She sometimes wrote satire, though she was sensitive to its potential for harm. She both printed a selection of her poems and carefully preserved her oeuvre in handsome manuscript form.

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Intertextuality and Influence	Anna Letitia Barbauld	ALB 's first hymn presents the world, as God creates and adorns it and pronounces it good, as a female body. Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications. 49-50 She is also alert to female precedents. Her Verses on Mrs Rowe recall...
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Elstob	Begun in order to help the work of a female student, this work reiterates more strongly EE 's plea for opening the arena of scholarship to women. For examples of poetic practice she turns to...
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Singer Rowe	Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea , must have been an important figure in enabling ESR 's writing career. Twelve years her senior, belonging to a family of a higher social rank who were in some...
Intertextuality and Influence	Ruth Rendell	Years ago, the young and inexperienced Wexford had become certain that a swaggering thug named Eric Targo is a psychopathic (but only occasional) strangler. He has remained obsessed with Targo, but without evidence. His younger...
Intertextuality and Influence	Frances Brooke	FB used her periodical The Old Maid as a forum for praise of poetry by Anne Finch and Elizabeth Carter . Finch had also been celebrated in one of the essays in The World which...
Intertextuality and Influence	Frances Brooke	Number 128, 12 June 1755, follows Jane Collier 's fairly recent Art of Tormenting in discussing mental cruelty in marriage; it advises husbands to use some caution, since a wife can die of a broken...
Intertextuality and Influence	Mary Whateley Darwall	The earliest extant poems by MWD are carefully crafted to show her skill and her familiarity with canonical poets. Most of her exemplars are male. In Rural Happiness she echoes Anne Finch : a female...
Intertextuality and Influence	Charlotte Lennox	The leading topics of these poems are love-relationships and women. The opening poem, A Pastoral, from the Song of Solomon, is erotic in tone. It ends: For Love's as strong as Death, and pow'rful...
Intertextuality and Influence	Mary Whateley Darwall	Besides Female Friendship (a vigorous defence of women's capacity for generous constancy) MWD addressed two poems in 1766 to a Scottish friend, Mrs Hewan . She wrote a few family pieces, including expressions of anguish...
Friends, Associates	Sarah Dixon	There is some evidence to suggest that SD may have known Anne Finch : may have been, in fact, one of the circle of female poets of Kent whom Finch celebrated in verse; she and...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Elstob	An early friendship that EE regarded as important was that with Mary Randolph of Canterbury. Randolph was in the unusual position of having a mother (who apparently shared the same name) who was very...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Singer Rowe	ESR enjoyed important friendships from around the age of twenty with Anne Finch, Lady Winchilsea , and Lady Hertford . Finch was twelve years older than ESR , and Hertford twenty-five years younger. They each...
Friends, Associates	Alexander Pope	Pope's relationships with women, particularly women who wrote, tended to be complicated and turbulent. They have been ably studied by scholar Valerie Rumbold . Contrary to rumour, he apparently liked and respected Anne Finch ...
Friends, Associates	Ephelia	If Ephelia's poems of compliment are taken to imply personal friendship, she may have been a friend of Aphra Behn , whom she praises warmly and with polite humility about her own abilities in her...
Friends, Associates	Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford	The young Frances Thynne grew up in a literary ambience. Her early friends included Frances Worsley, later Lady Carteret (who apparently patronised women writers later, when her husband was Viceroy of Ireland). Family friends from...

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