Dowriche, Anne (before 1560–after 1613)
Dowriche, Anne (before 1560–after 1613)
British poet. Born Anne Edgcumbe in Mount Edgcumbe, Cornwall, England, before 1560; died after 1613; dau. of Sir Richard Edgcumbe and Elizabeth Tregian Edgcumbe; m. Hugh Dowriche, 1580.
With husband, committed to the Puritan cause; wrote The French Historie (1589), a long poem about the French civil wars of 1500s, which depicts French Protestants (Huguenots) as heroes resisting monarchy and Catholicism.
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