RL
learned to read for herself before anyone was prepared to teach her. She had some books already, and when an uncle gave her a sixpence she bought a copy of Isaac Watts
's Hymns...
death
Mary Hays
Her funeral was an Anglican service, which, says Marilyn L. Brooks
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, she would not have approved of. But she was buried five days after her death in...
Anthologization
Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
Isaac Watts
published Reliquiae Juveniles: Miscellaneous Thoughts in Prose and Verse, including four short poems by Lady Hertford
identified by the pen-name Eusebia (meaning Piety).
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.