Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Anna Miller
Standard Name: Miller, Anna,, Lady
Birth Name: Anna Riggs
Used Form: Anne Riggs
Used Form: Anna Riggs-Miller
Pseudonym: An English Woman
Titled: Lady
Indexed Name: Lady Anna Riggs Miller
Anna, Lady Miller, 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).
After JJ
's death, her children Barbara and Robert Augustus (born 1745) became intimates of the Bath poetry circle of Anne, Lady Miller
.
Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press.
201, 207, 210
Family and Intimate relationships
Jane Johnson
JJ
's eldest child, her daughter Barbara
, remained unmarried. She developed her literary ability in poetry as well as in familiar letters, and in 1776 won a prize for poems submitted to Lady Miller