Anne Kingsmill (later AF
) is now suspected to have written the libretto for John Blow
's masque Venus and Adonis, composed during the reign of Charles II
and now sometimes called the first...
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April 1684: Mr and Mrs Priest's school at Gorges House,...
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April 1684
Mr
and Mrs Priest's school at Gorges House, Chelsea, put on a private revival of the court masque Venus and Adonis, by John Blow
(to a libretto perhaps by the future Anne Finch
).
Campbell, Margaret. Henry Purcell, Glory of His Age. Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Winn, James Anderson. “A Versifying Maid of Honour: Anne Finch and the Libretto for Venus and AdonisReview of English Studies, Vol.
