Anne Dowriche

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AD was a sixteenth-century poet and translator with a passion for Protestantism, a feeling for the heroic element in religious history, and a fondness for acrosticss.
Portrait painting of Anne Dowriche, dated 1567. She faces the viewer on a slight angle, with a slightly tense expression. She wears a heavy, dark, ornamented gown with a high, stiff ruffled collar that encircles her jawline and joins to an ornate headband, and her hair is pulled back from her face.

Milestones

Before 1 July 1560

Anne Edgecumbe (later AD ) was born either months or years before this date (on which her father named her and her sister in his will).
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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25 July 1589

AD dated the preface to her translated narrative poem The French Historie, in couplets in the poulter's measure, about the religious wars in France; it appeared in print this year, with her initials.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Biography

Birth

Before 1 July 1560

Anne Edgecumbe (later AD ) was born either months or years before this date (on which her father named her and her sister in his will).
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
172

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