Killigrew, Anne | Anthony à Wood (essay date 1721)
Anthony à Wood (essay date 1721)
Wood, Anthony à. “Henry Killigrew.” In Athenae Oxoniensis. An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the most ancient and famous University of Oxford, Vol. II, columns 1035-1036. London: B. Knaplock, D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, 1721.
[In the following excerpt from the expanded edition of a work originally published in 1691, Wood briefly summarizes Killigrew's life and commends her poetry.]
This worthy Dr. Killigrew had a Daughter named Anne, a Grace for Beauty, and a Muse for Wit, born in St. Martin's Lane in Lond. in the latter end of the the times of Usurpation, a little before the Restoration of King Charles II. and christned in a private Chamber, when the Offices in the Common-Prayer were not publicly allowed. Afterwards being tenderly educated, she became most admirable in the Arts of Poetry and Painting. She was one...
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