A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Winchelsea, (Anne, Countess of)
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WINCHELSEA (ANNE, COUNTESS OF), Daughter of Sir William Kingsmill, of Sidmonton, Hants, Knt. Maid of Honour to the Duchess of York, second Wife of James II.; and afterwards married to Heneage, second Son of Heneage, Earl of Winchelsea.
One of the most celebrated poems of the countess of Winchelsea, was that upon the Spleen, printed in a new miscellany of original poems on several occasions, published by Mr. Charles Gildon, 1701.
That poem occasioned another, by Mr. Nicholas Rowe, entitled An Epistle to Flavia, on the Sight of two Pindaric Odes, on the Spleen and Vanity, written by a lady to her friend. A collection of her poems was printed at London, 1713, together with a tragedy never acted, entitled Aristomenes. A great number of her poems still remain unpublished.
One or two are in the Elegant Extracts. She died 1720.
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