Anna Weamys
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Anna Weamys, sometimes referred to as Anne Weamys (fl.
1651) was an English
author
. Little is known of her life, but Weamys has been identified as the author of A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia (1651), which appeared under the name 'Mrs A. W.' A modern (1994) edition of this book was edited by Patrick Cullen.
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1651) was an English
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. Little is known of her life, but Weamys has been identified as the author of A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia (1651), which appeared under the name 'Mrs A. W.' A modern (1994) edition of this book was edited by Patrick Cullen.
Further reading
- Patrick Cullen, ‘Anna Weamys’, Encyclopedia of British women writers (1998)
- Jennifer Richards, 'Anna Weamys's A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia', Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies, May 1995, pp. 20–4
External links
- ‘Weamys, Anna (fl. 1650–1651)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed 11 November 2006.