When the English court turned Catholic, Lady Powis served as lady-in-waiting to the queen, Mary of Modena
. She was a witness to the birth of the king and queen's baby son
, was appointed...
Employer
Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale
Winifred succeeded her mother as a lady-in-waiting to Mary Beatrice of Modena
. While the Jacobite court-in-exile of St Germain was where she primarily worked, she became an expert too on the byzantine routine of...
Anthologization
Anne Finch
While she was still a maid of honour to Mary of Modena
, Anne Kingsmill (later AF
) began circulating her poems in manuscript: some political and religious pieces appeared in miscellanies in this decade...
