Anne Killigrew

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AK (also a painter) was a fine Restoration-period poet, who has the misfortune of being better known for Dryden 's praises of her than for her actual work.

Milestones

Probably May 1660

AK was born shortly before the Restoration, in St Martin's Lane, London, one of four children.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Henry Killigrew

16 June 1685

AK died of smallpox at her father 's lodgings near Westminster Abbey.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago.
299

November 1685

After her death, AK 's grieving father posthumously published a volume of her Poems.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago.
299

Biography

Birth and Family

Probably May 1660

AK was born shortly before the Restoration, in St Martin's Lane, London, one of four children.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago.
299
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Henry Killigrew