An Collins

01 January 1600 - 01 January 1653

AC was an obscure seventeenth-century religious poet, whose work has survived in a single copy of a single publication.

BirthName: An
AC 's name has sometimes been expanded to Anne. But the abbreviation on her title-page might have stood for something like Angela or Annabella.
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Milestones

After 1653

It is not known when or where AC died, but she seems to have been living when her book appeared.

Collins, An. Divine Songs and Meditacions. Editor Stewart, Stanley N., William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1961.

Biography

An Obscure Life

AC was probably though not certainly born during the sixteenth century; she does not sound like a young woman in her poems.

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