Selected Bibliography:
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

By Charles H. Hinnant,
University of Missouri

Last revised 22 March 1999

Editions

• Collected Works

  • Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions: Written by a Lady (London: printed for J[ohn] B[arber] and sold by Benj. Tooke at the Middle-Temple Gate, William Taylor in Pater-Noster-Row, and James Round in Exchange-Alley, Cornhill, 1713).
  • The Poems of Anne Countess of Winchilsea, ed. Myra Reyholds (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1903).
  • Selected Poems, ed. Denys Thompson (Manchester: Carcanet, 1987).
  • Selected Poems of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, ed. Katharine Rogers (New York: Ungar, 1979).
  • The Wellesley Manuscript Poems of Anne Countess of Winchilsea, ed. Jean M. Ellis D'Alessandro (Florence: privately printed, 1988).
  • The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems: A Critical Edition, ed. Barbara McGovern and Charles H. Hinnant (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1998).
  
  

• Archives and Depositories

  • British Library, London: Harleian MS 7316 (Second Quarto Book, Satyrs and Lampoons).
  • Folger Shakespeare Library: Anne Finch folio MS, "Miscellany Poems with Two Plays by Ardelia."
  • Northamptonshire Record Office, Delapre Abbey, Northampton: Finch-Hatton MS 283 (octavo MS of Anne Finch's "Poems on Several Subjects. Written by Ardelia").
  • Wellesley College, Margaret Clapp Library: Anne Finch MS, Poems.
  
  

• Selected Teaching Editions and Anthologies

  • Louise Bernikow, ed., The World Split Open: Four Centuries of Women Poets in England and America, 1552-1950 (New York: Vintage, 1974).
  • Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, eds., The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (New York: Norton, 1985).
  • Roger Lonsdale, Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989).
  • Katharine Rogers and William McCarthy, eds., The Meridian Anthology of Early Women Writers: British Women from Aphra Behn to Maria Edgeworth, 1660-1800 (New York: NAL, 1987).
  • Frederic Rowtons, The Female Poets of Great Britain (Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1981).
  • William Wordsworth, comp., Poems and Extracts Chosen by William Wordsorth for an Album Presented to Lady Mary Lowther, Christmas, 1819, introd. by Harold Littledale (London: Frowde, 1905).
  
  

Biographies

• Barbara McGovern, Anne Finch and Her Poetry. A Critical Biography (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1992).

Criticism

• Reference Works

  • Alison Adburgham, Women in Print: Writing Women and Women's Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria (London: Allen, 1972).
  • S. Austin Allibone, A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century: Containing Thirty-Thousand Biographies and Literary Notices: With Forty Indexes of Subjects, 8 vols. (Phildelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1859).
  • George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies who Have Been Celebrated for Their Writings or Skill in the Learned Languages, Arts and Sciences (Oxford, 1752).
  • Biographia Brittanica (London, 1763).
  • Thomas Birch et. al., The General Dictionary, 10 vols. (London, 1734-41).
  • John Duncombe, The Feminiad or Female Genius (London, 1751).
  • Margaret Drabble, ed., The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 5th ed. (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1985).
  • Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England (1662); a new ed. with a few explanatory notes, by John Nichols, 2 vols. (London, 1811).
  • Sarah Hale, Women's Record (New York, 1853).
  • The London Encyclopedia, ed. Ben Weinrab and Christopher Hibbert (London: Macmillan, 1983).
  • John Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century, Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons, and Intended as a Sequel to the "Literary Anecdotes," 8 vols. (London: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1817-58).
  • John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, 8 vols. (London: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1812-16).
  • Mary Prior, ed., Women in English Society, 1500-1800 (London: Methuen, 1985).
  • Ann Stanford, ed., The Women Poets in English (New York: McGraw, 1972).
  • Roger Thompson, Women in Stuart England and American: A Comparative Study (London: Routledge, 1974).
  • Janet Todd, ed., British Women Writers (New York: Ungar/Continuum, 1989).
  • Janet Todd, ed., Dictionary of British and American Women Writers, 1660-1800 (Totowa: Roman; London: Methuen, 1985).
  • J. R. Tutin, Four Early English Poetesses (London: Hull, 1908).
  • Jane Williams, The Literary Women of England (London: Saunders, Otley, 1861).
  
  

• Monographs and Articles

  • Paul B. Anderson, Paul B. "Mrs. Manley's Texts of Three of Lady Winchilsea's Poems," Modern Language Notes 45 (1930): 95-99.
  • Carol Barash, English Women's Poetry, 1649-1714: Politics, Community, and Linguistic Authority (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).
  • Carol Barash, "The Political Origins of Anne Finch's Poetry," Huntington Library Quarterly 54, no. 4 (Fall 1991): 327-51.
  • Thomas F. Bonnell, "Collins, Lady Winchilsea, and the Pursuit of the Muse," in Teaching Eighteenth-Century Poetry, ed. Christopher Fox (New York: AMS Press, 1990), 273-89.
  • Lucy Brashear, "Finch's 'The Bird and the Arras,'" Explicator 3 (1981): 21-22.
  • Ruben A. Brower, "Lady Winchilsea and the Poetic Tradition of the Seventeenth Century," Studies in Philology 42 (1945): 61-80.
  • Iona Bulgin, "Attempting the Pen: Anne Finch's Defence of a Woman's Right to be a Poet," in TransAtlantic Crossings: Eighteenth-Century Explorations (St. John's: Memorial University of Newfoundalnd, 1995), pp. 1-10.
  • John Buxton, "The Poems of the Countess of Winchilsea," Life and Letters 65 (1950): 195-204. Rpt. in A Tradition of English Poetry (New York: St. Martin's 1967).
  • Jean Ellis D'Alessandro, "Anne Countess of Winchilsea and the Whole Duty of Women: Socio-Cultural Inference in a Reading of 'The Introduction,'" Lingue del Mondon 52, nos. 5/6 (1988): 9-15.
  • Edmund Dowden, "A Noble Authoress." Essays Modern and Elizabethan (London: Dent, 1910).
  • John Eames, "Sir William Kingsmill (1613-1661) and His Poetry," English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 67, no. 2 (1986): 126-56.
  • Hoxie Neale Fairchild, Religious Trends in English Poetry (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1939).
  • Edmund Gosse, Gossip in a Library, 2 vols. (New York: Dodd, 1891).
  • Germaine Greer, "Wordsworth and Winchilsea: The Progress of an Error," in The Nature of Identity: Essays Presented to Donald E. Hayden by the Graduate Faculty of Modern Letters (Tulsa: Univ. of Tulsa, 1981), 1-13.
  • Elizabeth Hampsten, "Petticoat Authors: 1660-1720," Women's Studies 7 (1980): 21-38.
  • Elizabeth Hampsten, Introduction: "Poems by Anne Finch," Women Studies 7 (1980): 5-19.
  • Charles H. Hinnant, The Poetry of Anne Finch: An Essay in Interpretation (Newark, Del.: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1994).
  • Charles H. Hinnant, "Song and Speech in Anne Finch's 'To the Nightingale,'" Studies in English Literature, 31, no. 3 (Summer, 1991): 499-513.
  • Charles H. Hinnant, "Feminism and Femininity: A Reconsideration of Anne Finch's 'Ardelia's Answer to Ephelia,'" The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 33 (1992): 119-132.
  • Helen Sard Hughes, "Lady Winchilsea and Her Friends," London Mercury 19 (1929): 624-35.
  • Lesley Johnstone, "Winchilsea's 'Nocturnal Reverie,' Lines 4-6," Explicator 41 (1983): 20.
  • Lesley Johnstone, "Winchilsea's 'Nocturnal Reverie,' Lines 25-28," Explicator 41 (1983): 2-21.
  • Jennifer Keith, "The Poetics of Anne Finch," Studies in English Literature 38 (1998): 465-80.
  • Jean Mallinson, "Anne Finch: A Woman Poet and the Tradition," in Gender at Work: Four Women Writers of the Eighteenth Century, ed. Ann Messenger (Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1990), 34-76.
  • Barbara McGovern, "Finch, Pope, and Swift: The Bond of Displacement," in Pope, Swift, and Women Writers, ed. Donald C. Mell (Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1996), 105-24.
  • Dorothy Mermin, "Women Becoming Poets: Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, Anne Finch," ELH 57 (1990): 335-55.
  • Ann P. Messenger, "'Adam Pos'd': Metaphysical and Augustan Satire," West Coast Review 8 (1974): 10-11.
  • Ann P. Messenger, "Lady Winchilsea and Twice-Fallen Women," Atlantis 3 (1978): 82-98.
  • Ann P. Messenger, "Publishing Without Perishing: Lady Winchilsea's Miscellany Poems of 1713," Restoration: Studies in English Literature Culture, 1660-1700 5 (1981): 27-37.
  • Ann P. Messenger, "Selected Nightingales and an 'Augustan' Sensibility," English Studies in Canada 6 (1980): 145-53. Rev. and rpt. as "Selected Nightingales: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, et al.," in His and Hers: Essays in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature (Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky Press, 1986), 71-83.
  • John Middleton Murry, "Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea," New Adelphi 1 (1927): 145-53.
  • John Middleton Murry, "The Countess of Winchilsea," in Countries of the Mind (London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1931).
  • Douglas Lane Patey, "Anne Finch, John Dyer, and the Georgic Syntax of Nature," in Augustan Subjects: Essays in Honor of Martin C. Battestin, ed. Albert J. Rivero (Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1997), pp. 29-46.
  • Myra Reynolds, The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760 (Boston: Houghton, 1920).
  • Mabel L. Robinson, "Lady Winchilsea: A Modernist," Sewanee Review 25 (1917): 412-21.
  • Katharine Rogers, "Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea: An Augustan Woman Poet," in Shakespeare's Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets, ed. Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1979), 32-46.
  • Katharine Rogers, Feminism in Eighteenth-Century England (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1982).
  • Katharine Rogers, "Finch's 'Candid Account' vs. Eighteenth-Century Theories of the Spleen," Mosaic 22 (1989): 17-27.
  • Ruth Salvaggio, Enlightened Absence: Neoclassical Configurations of the Feminine (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1988).
  • John F. Sena, "Melancholy in Anne Finch and Elizabeth Carter: The Ambivalence of an Idea," Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971): 108-19.
  • Denys Thompson, "Anne Finch," PN Review 8 (1982): 35-38.
  • William Wordsworth, "Essay, Supplementary to the Preface to the Second Edition of the Lyrical Ballads," vol. 3 of The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, ed. W. J. B. Owen and Jane W. Smyser, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974).
  • Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929; repr. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1957).
  
  

• Dissertations

  • William J. Cameron, "Anne, Countess of Winchsea: A Guide for the Future Biographer," Thesis, Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z., 1951.
  • Ann Longknife, "A Preface to an Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea," Dissertation, University of Houston, 1978.
  • D. G. Neill, "Studies for an Edition of the Poems of Anne, Countess of Winchilsea, Consisting of a Bibliography of Her Poems and a Study of All Available Manuscripts," Thesis, New College, Oxford, 1954.
  
  

Electronic Resources

• Ellen Moody, I On Myself Can Live: An Unfinished Study of Anne Finch, GMU.
• Ellen Moody, Chronology of Ann Finch's Poems, GMU.
• "Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea," Celebration of Women Writers, CMU.

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