Constance Aston Fowler

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Constance Aston Fowler was a seventeeth century English manuscript author and anthologist. Born "Constance Aston" about 1621,[1] she was the youngest child of Sir Walter Aston.[2] Her home was The Priory at St. Thomas, near the family home of Tixal Hall in Lincolnshire and Staffordshire.[3]

Her Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler is studied as an example of "how manuscript texts were produced, disseminated, and preserved in provincial areas." [4] "Constance Aston Fowler constructed her own private anthology, in which she mingled the poems of her family with ones by Ben Jonson, Henry King, and John Donne [5]. Her father, her brother Herbert, her sister Gertrude, and their friend Lady Dorothy Shirley contributed poetry. [6].

[edit] References

  1. ^ authorities.loc.gov
  2. ^ Ezell, Margaret (1999). Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 27. ISBN 9780801861390. 
  3. ^ Ezell, Margaret (1999). Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 26. ISBN 9780801861390. 
  4. ^ Ezell, Margaret (1999). Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 27. ISBN 9780801861390. 
  5. ^ Ezell, Margaret (1999). Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 27. ISBN 9780801861390. 
  6. ^ Ezell, Margaret (1999). Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 27. ISBN 9780801861390. 

[edit] Primary sources

Fowler, Constance Aston (2000). The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition. Tempe, Ariz: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in conjunction with Renaissance English Text Society, 206. ISBN 0866982523. 

Clifford, Arthur (1813). Tixall poetry with notes and illustrations. Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne. 

[edit] Secondary sources

Burke, Victoria Elizabeth (1996). "Women and Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Culture: Miscellanies, Commonplace Books, and Song Books Compiled by English and Scottish Women, 1600-1660". . University of Oxford

Burke, Victoria Elizabeth (1997). "Women and Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Culture: Four Miscellanies". The Seventeenth Century 12: 135–150. ISSN 0268-117X. 

LaBelle, Jenijoy (1980). "Huntington Aston Manuscript: First-Line index of the MS". The Book Collector 29: 549–67. 

LaBelle, Jenijoy (1980). "A True Love's Knot: The Letters of Constance Fowler and the Poems of Herbert Aston". Journal of English and Germanic Philology 79: 13–31. 

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