Anne Wharton

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AW was a late-seventeenth-century poet who also wrote verse drama. Her recent editors identified with some certainty twenty-four of her poems; their hope, realised within a few years of their edition, was that this tiny fraction of her original output would be augmented with new discoveries.
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124.
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  • BirthName: Anne Lee
  • Married: Wharton
Reproduction of a black-and-white image of Anne Wharton from A catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors, 1806. Her hair is long with short pieces in the front that are curled, and she is wearing a voluminous dress.

Milestones

20 July 1659

Anne Lee (later AW ) was born, to a mother who was mortally ill and a father who was dead.
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124.
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1679

AW probably began her historical verse drama Love's Martyr; or, Witt above Crowns.
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124.
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29 October 1685

AW , aged twenty-six, died at Adderbury, another of her family's manors near Woodstock; most reports mentioned convulsions before her death.
She suffered long and intensely. Her editors rehearse the possibilities: syphilis, epilepsy, tuberculosis, the effects of medical treatment—or poison.
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124.
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Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124.
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Biography

Birth and Family

20 July 1659

Anne Lee (later AW ) was born, to a mother who was mortally ill and a father who was dead.
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124.
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