"Art she had none, yet wanted none: For Nature did that want supply."
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John Dryden, "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew", prefixed to Killigrew's posthumous Poems (1686)
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Anne Killigrew
Anne Killigrew (1660 – 16 June 1685) was an English poet and painter. Born in London, she and her family were active in literary and court circles. Killigrew's poems were circulated in manuscript and collected and published posthumously in 1686 after she died from smallpox at age 25.
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