Constantia Grierson

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The Irishwoman CG (who apparently came from the lower classes but is never reckoned among the eighteenth-century labouring-class poets) was well-known as a scholar in her lifetime, and might be better known as a poet if she had not died so young. Of her output, besides scholarly editions, only just under twenty poems and five short prose pieces are known to survive.
Elias, A. C. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, pp. 33-56.
33

Milestones

About 1704

Constantia Crawley (later CG ) was born in Kilkenny, Ireland.
A. C. Elias, Jr, dates her birth only to between 1703 and 1705.
Elias, A. C. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, pp. 33-56.
39n14
Brooke, Henry. Brookiana. Printed for R. Phillips.
2: 123
Elias, A. C. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, pp. 33-56.
36, 38

2 December 1732

CG died, probably of tuberculosis: she had made light of a persistent cough and joked about the highly imaginative dreams that followed a sleeping-draught, probably laudanum.
Her death-date has generally been given (following Mary Barber) as the following year.
Elias, A. C. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, pp. 33-56.
36, 45

Biography

Birth and Family

About 1704

Constantia Crawley (later CG ) was born in Kilkenny, Ireland.
A. C. Elias, Jr, dates her birth only to between 1703 and 1705.
Elias, A. C. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, pp. 33-56.
39n14
Brooke, Henry. Brookiana. Printed for R. Phillips.
2: 123
Elias, A. C. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, pp. 33-56.
36, 38

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