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Biographical note. Born Anne Kingsmill at Sydmonton, near Newbury, youngest child of Sir William Kingsmill (1613-61) and Anne Haslewood (d. 1664), Anne Finch was privately educated. In 1682 she became a maid of honour to Mary of Modena (1658-1718), wife of James, Duke of York, later King James II. She entered the circle of Restoration court ...
The 9th Earl died unmarried and was succeeded by his first cousin once removed, the 10th Earl, son of George Finch-Hatton (1747–1823) (who had assumed the additional surname of Hatton), son of the Hon. Edward Finch, fifth son of the 2nd Earl of Nottingham, and his wife the Hon. Anne Hatton, who was the daughter of Christopher Hatton, 1st Viscount Hatton (see the Viscount Hatton) and a ...
Anne Kingsmill was born at Sydmonton, Hampshire in April 1661, ... Collapse Anne Finch (née Kingsmill), Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720) Notes. Notes.
Other works by Anne Finch (née Kingsmill), countess of Winchilsea. ADAM Pos'd. ALCIDOR. All is Vanity. The ATHEIST and the ACORN. The Battle between the Rats and the Weazles. The Brass-Pot, and Stone-Jugg. A FABLE. The CAUTIOUS LOVERS. The CHANGE. The Critick and the Writer of FABLE Cupid and Folly. Imitated from the FRENCH. ()
Anne Finch, the Countess of Winchilsea, was an English poet and courtier in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. She was a major female poet during her lifetime, whose work spanned genres and addressed a variety of subjects.
FINCH, ANNE, Countess of Winchilsea (d. 1720), poetess, was the daughter of Sir William Kingsmill of Sidmonton, near Southampton, and the wife of Heneage Finch, second son of Heneage, second earl of Winchilsea [q. v.] Her husband succeeded to the title as fourth earl on the death of his nephew Charles in 1712.
By Countess of Winchilsea Anne Finch. To Pope’s Impromptu Title and Epigraph This poem is also known by a longer title: "To Mr. Pope In answer to a coppy of verses occasion'd by a little dispute upon four lines in the Rape of the Lock". Finch is responding to these four lines from Pope's The Rape of the Lock (first published 1712, finished 1717):
