Anne Twysden

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Anne Twysden (nee Finch)
in 1615
in 1615
Born28 February 1574
London, Kingdom of England
Died14 October 1638(1638-10-14) (aged 64)
Kent, Kingdom of England
NationalityEnglish
Subjectdevotions

Anne Twysden born Anne Finch (28 February 1574 – 14 October 1638) was an English writer. She was the mother of several notable children but she is known principally for one book and the original of this work is lost.

Life[]

Twysden was born in London in 1574 at . Her parents were Sir Moyle Finch, 1st Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Heneage who became the 1st Countess of Winchilsea. Anne learned four languages as a child at the court of Queen Elizabeth whilst in the care of her grandmother Elizabeth (born Heneage). Anne married William Twysden who was made a baronet. They had seven children, including Roger, Thomas, Elizabeth (who married Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet) and Anne (who married Sir Christopher Yelverton, 1st Baronet), before he died in 1629. She had her own ladies-in-waiting which included the diarist Isabella Saunder and Jane Thomlinson and she married these off to her son Roger in 1635 and to another son Thomas in 1639. She had two houses at East Peckham and Redcross Street in London.[1] Details of her life are recorded in the extant diary of her daughter-in-law Isabella.[2]

Her children had to persuade her to pay Charles I's Ship money which she objected to.[1] She wrote a book of devotions that was edited and published by her son Roger. Her son's notes show that this was published after her death in 1638. The Twysden papers and two of her letters are held by the British Library. Twysden's original copy of her devotions was known to have existed until 1849 but it are now lost.[3]

Twysden died in Kent in 1638.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Marie-Louise Coolahan, ‘Twysden , Anne, Lady Twysden (1574–1638)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 14 Jan 2017
  2. ^ Bennitt, Rev F W (1939). "The diary of Isabella, wife of Sir Roger Twtsden Baronet of Royden Hall, East Peckham, 1645-1651" (PDF). Archaeologia Cantiana. 51: 113- – via Kent Archaeological Society.
  3. ^ Lady Anne Twsden, The Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–1700, Retrieved 14 January 2017
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