AW
's mother, born Anne Danvers
, was heiress to a large fortune from a dead brother, though her father's estates were forfeit because he had signed Charles I
's death-warrant.
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124.