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WINCHELSA

Volume 18 · 86 words · 1797 Edition

(Anne countess of), a lady of excellent genius, especially in poetry, was maid of honour to the duchess of York, second wife to king James II. and was afterwards married to Henecage, second son of the earl of Winchelsea. One of the most considerable of the countesses of Winchelsea's poems was that on the Spleen. A collection of her poems was printed at London in 1713, containing a tragedy never acted, intitled Ariadne. The countess died in 1720 without issue, as her husband died in 1726.