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Jennifer Keith

is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She holds a PhD in English from Emory University and is the senior editor of the two-volume Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. Volume 1—Early Manuscript Books—has just been published; Volume 2—Later Collections, Print and Manuscript—will be published in Fall 2020. Keith has authored Poetry and the Feminine from Behn to Cowper (2005) and is currently completing another monograph: “The Arts of Exile: Anne Finch’s Poetic and Political Designs,” the first book-length interpretation of Finch’s career that integrates an analysis of her poems and plays with the material dimensions of their production and circulation in manuscript and print.
The Folger Manuscript Book of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
Anne Finch
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The Folger Manuscript Book of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

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This manuscript book of poems by Anne Finch is part of the Folger Shakespeare Library collection. N.b.3. (Photo: Brittany Diliberto, Bee Two Sweet) The Folger’s outstanding collection is usually associated with Shakespeare and his contemporaries, but scholars who focus on…