Constance Aston Fowler
Constance Aston Fowler was a seventeenth 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." [2] "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 [4]. Her father, her brother Herbert, her sister Gertrude, and their friend Lady Dorothy Shirley contributed poetry.[4].
References
- ^ authorities.loc.gov
- ^ a b Ezell, Margaret (1999). Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 27. ISBN 9780801861390.
- ^ Ezell, Margaret (1999). Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 26. ISBN 9780801861390.
- ^ a b Ezell, Margaret (1999). Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 27. ISBN 9780801861390.
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. pp. 206. ISBN 0866982523.
- Clifford, Arthur (1813). Tixall poetry with notes and illustrations. Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne.
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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