Anne Southwell 1574-1636
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Anne Southwell, Lady Southwell 1574-1636
Biographical Note
Author and poet. Daughter of Sir Thomas Harris, married Sir Thomas Southwell, and after his death in 1626, Captain Henry Sibthorpe.
Books
Her commonplace book, which includes original writings of hers, is now Folger MS V.b.198. In 1631, she moved three trunkfuls of books to her new household.
Sources
- Cavanaugh, J. The library of Lady Southwell and Captain Sibthorpe, Studies in Bibliography 20 (1967), 243-54.
- Hackel, H. The Countess of Bridgewater’s London library, in J. Andersen & E. Sauer (eds), Books and readers, 2002, 138-59, p.139.
- Klene, Jean. "Southwell [née Harris], Anne, Lady Southwell (bap. 1574, d. 1636), poet." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.