I lived from 1661-1720. I was from England, and am in the English category.
Anne Kingsmill was born in April, 1661, the third child of Sir William Kingsmill and Anne Haslewood. Sir William died only 5 months after Anne's birth. At the age of twenty-three, she went to the court of Charles II as a maid of honor (attendant) to the duchess of York. She married one of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber, but both she and her husband were forcibly retired when James II was deposed. After two years, her husband inherited a title and an estate in the Kentish countryside. From the safety of a private country house, Finch bravely published a volume of her poetry, despite the mockery that she received as an aristocratic woman writer.
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