Anne Ley

Anne (Norman) Ley (c. 1599 – 1641) was an English writer, teacher, and polemicist.[1] She wrote several poems, letters, meditations, and funerary texts.[1][2] Her husband was Roger Ley, a writer and a curate of St. Leonard's Church in Shoreditch, Middlesex.[3][4] Both of the couple were ardent royalists and religious conformists.[4]

Her commonplace book and works survive to this day, compiled into a manuscript by her husband after her death in 1641.[5]

  1. ^ a b Gordon, Andrew; Rist, Thomas (2013). The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England: Memorial Cultures of the Post Reformation. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 978-1409446576.
  2. ^ Stevenson, Jane; Davidson, Peter (2001). Early Modern Women Poets (1520-1700): An Anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 257–9. ISBN 978-0199242573.
  3. ^ Lindley, Keith (January 2008). Ley, Roger. Oxford University Press. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  4. ^ a b Stevenson, Jane (2001), "Women Latin Poets in Britain in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries", Seventeenth Century, pp. 9, 11 – via EBSCOhost
  5. ^ Foster, Donald W.; Banton, Tobian (2013). Women's Works. Vol. 4: 1625-1650. Wicked Good Books, Inc. pp. xxii, 1–4. ISBN 978-0988282094.