Locke, Anne Vaughan (c. 1530–c. 1590)
Locke, Anne Vaughan (c. 1530–c. 1590)
British poet and translator. Name variations: Anna Dering, Anne Prowse; (pseudonym) A.L. Born Anne Vaughan, c. 1530, in England; died after 1590; dau. of Stephen Vaughan and Margaret Gwynneth (Guinet) Vaughan; stepdau. of Margery Brinklow; m. Henry Locke or Lok, c. 1552 (died 1571); m. Edward Dering (radical Protestant preacher), c. 1572 (died 1576); m. Richard Prowse or Prouze, before 1583; children: 6.
Important figure in Elizabethan Protestant community, became close friend of John Knox and joined Knox and other exiles in Geneva, Switzerland, for 2 years; continued correspondence with him after returning to England (1559) in which he gave her messages for English Puritan community; had an unpublished treatise by Knox printed in London; trans. Calvin's Sermons upon the Songe of Ezechias (1560) to which is attached sequence of 26 sonnets probably by Locke called A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner; also trans. John Taffin's Of the Markes of the Children of God (1590).
See also S.M. Felch, ed., Collected Works (1998).