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Anne Finch, née Kingsmill, Countess of Winchilsea (April 1661 in Sydmonton, Hampshire, England – August 5, 1720 in London, England), was one of the first female English poets to be published.
She was the third child of Sir William Kingsmill and Anne Haslewood. She was well educated as her family believed in good education for girls as well as for boys. In 1682, Anne Kingsmill went to St. James's Palace to become a Maid of Honour to Mary of Modena (wife of James, Duke of York, who later became King James II.) There she met the courtier Heneage Finch whom she married on May 15, 1684. It was a very happy marriage and Anne wrote several love poems to her husband, most famous perhaps A letter to Dafnis.
On August 4, 1712, Charles Finch, 4th Earl of Winchilsea died childless. This made his uncle, Anne's husband, the Earl of Winchilsea, and Anne, the Countess of Winchilsea.
She was buried at her home at Eastwell in Kent.
External links
- Luminarium: Anne Finch - Life, works, resources
- Women writers: Anne Kingsmill Finch
- Poemhunter
- The Literary Encyclopedia
- Women Critics 1660-1829: An Anthology. ed. Folger Collective on Early Women Critics. Bloomingon: Indiana University Press, 1995. 45-43.