Anne Finch

01 April 1661 - 05 August 1720

Standard Name: Finch, Anne

Birth Name: Anne Kingsmill

Married Name: Anne Finch

Titled: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

Pseudonym: Ardelia

Pseudonym: Areta

Pseudonym: a Lady

Used Form: Anne Finch, Lady Winchilsea

AF is an important poet of the Restoration and early eighteenth century—highly versatile and original. She wrote in many genres: fables (a high proportion of her poems, giving scope to her humour and complexity), closet drama, elegies, political, religious, personal, and proto-feminist pieces, and a notable pindaric ode which was her single most famous publication. She sometimes wrote satire, though she was sensitive to its potential for harm. She both printed a selection of her poems and carefully preserved her oeuvre in handsome manuscript form.

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Intertextuality and Influence	Charlotte Lennox	The leading topics of these poems are love-relationships and women. The opening poem, A Pastoral, from the Song of Solomon, is erotic in tone. It ends: For Love's as strong as Death, and pow'rful...
Intertextuality and Influence	Anna Letitia Barbauld	ALB 's first hymn presents the world, as God creates and adorns it and pronounces it good, as a female body. Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications, 2016. 49-50 She is also alert to female precedents. Her Verses on Mrs Rowe recall...
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Elstob	Begun in order to help the work of a female student, this work reiterates more strongly EE 's plea for opening the arena of scholarship to women. For examples of poetic practice she turns to...
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Singer Rowe	Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea , must have been an important figure in enabling ESR 's writing career. Twelve years her senior, belonging to a family of a higher social rank who were in some...
Intertextuality and Influence	Frances Brooke	FB used her periodical The Old Maid as a forum for praise of poetry by Anne Finch and Elizabeth Carter . Finch had also been celebrated in one of the essays in The World which...
Intertextuality and Influence	Ruth Rendell	Years ago, the young and inexperienced Wexford had become certain that a swaggering thug named Eric Targo is a psychopathic (but only occasional) strangler. He has remained obsessed with Targo, but without evidence. His younger...
Intertextuality and Influence	Frances Brooke	Number 128, 12 June 1755, follows Jane Collier 's fairly recent Art of Tormenting in discussing mental cruelty in marriage; it advises husbands to use some caution, since a wife can die of a broken...
Intertextuality and Influence	Anne Wharton	Elizabeth Elstob cited AW 's poetic achievement along with that of the far better-known Katherine Philips and Anne Finch . Elstob, Elizabeth. The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue. J. Bowyer and C. King, 1715. xxiv
Intertextuality and Influence	Mary Tighe	MT mentions her anguish Tighe, Mary. Keats and Mary Tighe. Editor Weller, Earle Vonard, Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966. 308 and says that if she could resign herself to parting with her friends, then the bitterness of death were past Tighe, Mary. Keats and Mary Tighe. Editor Weller, Earle Vonard, Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966. 308 —citing the words of Lady Rachel Russell 's husband...
Intertextuality and Influence	Mary Whateley Darwall	The earliest extant poems by MWD are carefully crafted to show her skill and her familiarity with canonical poets. Most of her exemplars are male. In Rural Happiness she echoes Anne Finch : a female...
Intertextuality and Influence	Mary Whateley Darwall	Besides Female Friendship (a vigorous defence of women's capacity for generous constancy) MWD addressed two poems in 1766 to a Scottish friend, Mrs Hewan . She wrote a few family pieces, including expressions of anguish...
Literary responses	Sarah Lady Piers	Thomas Colepeper , who recorded SLP 's marriage, called her a great poetess. qtd. in Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. She may well be one of the three Kentish women poets whom Anne Finch celebrated (along with herself) in The Circuit of...
Literary Setting	Mary Boyle	MB here recounts the story, set during the final days of James II 's reign, of Mary Savile, a fictional maid of honour toMary of Modena , James's wife (whose actual maids of honour...
Occupation	Anne Killigrew	She became, along with Anne Kingsmill (later Anne Finch) and Sarah Jennings (later Duchess of Marlborough) , a Maid of Honour to Mary of Modena (then Duchess of York). Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988. 299
Publishing	Elizabeth Elstob	Its full title is An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory , Anciently used in the English-Saxon Church. Giving an Account of the Conversion of the English from Paganism to Christianity. It...

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