Anne Lady Southwell

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ALS , who lived in the later-sixteenth and earlier-seventeenth centuries in England and in Protestant, colonial Ireland, left a commonplace-book containing a collection of her own remarkable poems as well as a few letters, aphorisms, poems by others, financial records, and inventories. At least one prose piece and a couple of poems survive elsewhere. Southwell used writing instrumentally, to maintain her contacts and further her husbands' careers; she also used poetry to work through her religious feelings and philosophical positions, and clearly dreamed of poetic fame or at least recognition.
  • BirthName: Anne Harris
  • Married: Southwell; Sibthorpe
  • Titled: Lady
  • Indexed: Lady Anne Southwell

Milestones

Before 22 August 1574

Anne Harris (later ALS ) was born at Cornworthy Priory in Devon, the eldest in a family of four. This was the day of her baptism in Cornworthy church.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Hasler, P. W., editor. “The House of Commons 1558-1603”. The History of Parliament, 1981.

2 December 1626

This date heads The workes of the Lady Ann Sothwell, which stands first in ALS 's so-called commonplace-book, the collection assembled by herself and her second husband , of poems (by her and others), letters, maxims, and notes, primarily religious in tone.
Southwell, Anne, Lady. The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book. Editor Klene, Jean, Renaissance English Text Society, 1997.
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2 October 1636

ALS died at her home in Acton, aged sixty-two, leaving her second husband to mourn her.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1997

ALS 's commonplace-book was edited by Jean Klene for the Renaissance English Text Society as The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book. Folger MS. V.b.198.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Biography

Birth and Family

Before 22 August 1574

Anne Harris (later ALS ) was born at Cornworthy Priory in Devon, the eldest in a family of four. This was the day of her baptism in Cornworthy church.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Hasler, P. W., editor. “The House of Commons 1558-1603”. The History of Parliament, 1981.

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