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Anne Wharton

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40: 240:, and for a number of lyrical poems and biblical paraphrases, but all that was published in her lifetime was a heartfelt elegy on Rochester's death, under the pseudonym Urania. This brought appreciative poetic responses from 263:
A modern critical edition of 34 known works by Anne Wharton appeared in 1997, but at least eleven other poems have been discovered in manuscript since then. Her "Elegy on the Earl of Rochester" appears in the
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Her letters to her husband from Paris seem devoted, but when he visited her again in Paris, to obtain her signature on some documents to do with her ÂŖ8000 estate, her ardour seems to have cooled.
161:, died not long after her birth. She and her sister Eleanor were brought up at Adderbury House, where they lived with the mistress, mother and grandmother of its owner, the poet and libertine 145:, 20 July 1659 - 29 October 1685) was an English poet and verse dramatist. Little of her work was published in her lifetime, but some 45 pieces have been ascribed to her. 681: 218: 169: 130: 221:
before her marriage (ostensibly bribing a servant to let him into the girl's room at night) and with "Jack Howe" (probably the Whig politician
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claimed in his autobiography to have had an affair with her, and alleged that she had had three other affairs – with
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in an eclogue to the memory of Eleanor, who died in 1691, observes that her own was a peaceful one by comparison:
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for her health in 1678 and 1680, as she suffered from eye troubles and convulsions, possibly linked to
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and "A Paraphrase on the Last Speech of Dido in Virgil's Aeneis" in
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Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of 17th-Century Women's Verse
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Whig's Progress: Tom Wharton between Two Revolutions
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(7 April 2000). 260:, which was first performed in 1684. 213:After her death, her brother-in-law, 7: 306:And Bless the Hollow Murmuring Rocks 238:Love's Martyr; or, Witt above Crowns 557:The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton 682:17th-century English women writers 315:'Tis hard such Passion to Destroy, 311:Thus you may see with how much Joy 293:But now my Joys as wild are grown, 163:John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester 153:Anne Lee was born 20 July 1659 at 14: 382:. Vol. 60. pp. 401–402. 302:I tell it to the Bleating Flocks, 168:On 16 September 1673 she married 554:; Hastings, Susan, eds. (1997). 379:Dictionary of National Biography 288:When many tedious Days, my Fears 284:How hardly I concealed my Tears? 172:(1648–1715). She paid visits to 165:, who was Anne Wharton's uncle. 582:"Selected Recent Acquisitions" 297:Sorrow may make a silent Moan, 1: 445:Associated University Presses 687:17th-century English writers 723: 692:17th-century English poets 313:We Want, we Wish, Believe; 250:Poems on Several Occasions 96:poet & verse dramatist 21:Anne Hollingsworth Wharton 19:For the US historian, see 18: 611:Fowler, Alastair (1991). 304:To every Stream and Tree, 299:But Joy will be revealed. 295:And hard to be concealed: 37: 707:Writers from Oxfordshire 702:Wharton family (England) 290:Told me I Loved in vain. 538:Oxford University Press 534:(subscription required) 435:Clark, J. Kent (2004). 399:Oxford University Press 393:Clark, J. Kent (1984). 308:For Echoing back to me. 286:How oft did I complain? 16:English poet, 1659–1685 641:, ed. (7 April 2000). 501:. 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Index

Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
portrait by Peter Lely
Peter Lely
Ditchley Park
Adderbury
Thomas Wharton
Ditchley Park
Sir John Danvers
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
Thomas Wharton
Paris
syphilis
Adderbury
Robert Gould
Goodwin Wharton
Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough
John Grubham Howe
Edmund Waller
Aphra Behn
Gilbert Burnet
New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse (1991)
Greer, Germaine
Virago Press
ISBN
0-86068-999-9
Seccombe, Thomas
"Wharton, Anne" 
Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford University Press
ISBN

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