The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea 2 Volume Hardback Set
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This is the first ever complete critical edition of the writings of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720), including work printed in her lifetime and material left in manuscript form at her death. Textual analysis, based on print and manuscript copies in repositories across the United Kingdom and United States, reveals her revision processes and uses of manuscript and print. Extensive commentary clarifies her techniques, sources, contexts, and diction. A detailed essay traces the history of her works' reception and transmission. The result is a complete view of her achievements that will promote more accurate assessments of her contributions to literary and cultural shifts, including perspectives on literary value, women's equality, religion, and affairs of state. Writer and critic of the Glorious Revolution, Finch imparts rare insights into this watershed of political and cultural values. Her work represents a complex convergence of artistic innovation, political allegiance, and personal passion.
Selected Poems: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (Fyfield Books)
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In this collection, a rare woman poet in a patriarchal age celebrates the quiet pleasures of a happy marriage, country life, friendship, and the qualities of a life lived.
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea 2 Volume Hardback Set) (Volume 2)
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The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea 2 Volume Hardback Set) (Volume 1)
Anne Finch (née Kingsmill), Countess of Winchilsea was an English poet.
Background
She was a daughter of Sir William Kingsmill of Sidmonton, near Southampton, and was born in April 1661.
Five months later her father died, and her mother married in 1662 Sir Thomas Ogle. Lady Ogle died in 1664, and nothing is heard of her daughter Anne until 1683, when she is mentioned as one of the maids of honour of Mary of Modena, duchess of York.
Career
At the Revolution Heneage Finch refused the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, and he and his wife had no fixed home until they were invited in 1690 to Eastwell Park, Kent, by Finch's nephew Charles, 4th earl of Winchelsea, on whose death in 1712 Heneage Finch succeeded to the earldom. The countess of Winchelsea died in London on the 5th of August 1720, leaving no issue, her husband surviving until 1726.
Lady Winchelsea's poems contain many copies of verse addressed to her friends and contemporaries. She was to some extent a follower of the "matchless Orinda" in the fervour of her friendships.
During her lifetime she published her poem "The Spleen" in Gildon's Miscellany (1701) and a volume of Poems in 1713 which included a tragedy called Aristomenes.
But in the farce Three Hours after Marriage (1717) attributed to Gay, but really the work of Pope, Arbuthnot and Gay, she is ridiculed as the learned lady, Phoebe Clinket, a character assigned to Pope's hand. Lady Winchelsca's poems were almost forgotten when Wordsworth in the "Essay, supplementary to the Preface " of his Poems (1815), drew attention to her nature-poetry, asserting that with the exception of Pope's " Windsor Forest " and her "Nocturnal Reverie, " English poetry between Paradise Lost and Thomson's Seasons did not present "a single new image of external nature. "
Wordsworth sent at Christmas 1819 a MS. of extracts from Lady Winchelsea and other writers to Lady Mary Lowther, and his correspondence with Alexander Dyce contains some minute criticism and appreciation of her poetry.
Mr Edmund Gosse wrote a notice of her poems for Т. H. Ward's English Poets (vol. iii. , 1880), and in 1884 came into possession of a MS. volume of her poems. A complete edilion of her verse, The Poems of Anne, Countess of Winchelsea, wasedited by Myra Reynolds (Chicago, 1903) with an exhaustive essay.
She married in May 1684 Colonel Heneage Finch, who was attached to the duke of York's household. To him she addressed poems and versified epistles, in which he figures as Daphnis and she as Ardelia.