Anne Wentworth

Alison Searle (University of Leeds)

Ed. by Jacqueline Eales, Canterbury Christ Church University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.04: English Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century, 1625-1688.
Vol. editors: Jennifer Brady (Rhodes College), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Neil Forsyth (Université de Lausanne), Claire Preston (Queen Mary, University of London), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University)

Dates

Born 8 Oct 1629
Died c. 1693
Activity 1655-c. 1693

Places

Born in England
Active in England

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Primary

Religious writer

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Wentworth's Works

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An anonymous contributor to Anne Wentworth’s final work,

Englands Spiritual Pill

(1679), states that she was “a modest chast virtuous Woman, and of no mean parantage, as is well known in

Lincolnshire

” (48). From Wentworth’s first work,

A True Account

(1676), we can deduce that she was born around 1630; she married William Wentworth around 1653, and they lived in London. Wentworth had at least one daughter (

Englands Spiritual Pill

, 33), but there are no references to any other children. Wentworth’s last work was published in 1679; it is impossible to determine her date of death with any certainty, though Catie Gill has suggested that she may be “the Anne Wentworth who lived in St John’s Court and was buried on 22 May 1693 at St James’s Church, Clerkenwell” (“Anne…

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Citation: Searle, Alison . "Anne Wentworth". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 April 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12185, accessed 24 November 2024.]