Constance Fowler

Constance Fowler (née Aston; c. 1621 – 1664)[1][2] was an English manuscript author and anthologist. She was the youngest child of Walter Aston, 1st Lord Aston of Forfar and Gertrude Sadleir, who were a Catholic family.[3][4] Her home was The Priory at St Thomas, near the family home of Tixall Hall in Staffordshire.[5]

Studied

Her Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler is studied as an example of "how manuscript texts were produced, disseminated, and preserved in provincial areas."[4] "Constance Aston Fowler built up her own private anthology, mingling the poems of her family with ones by Ben Jonson, Henry King, and John Donne.[4] Her father, her brother Herbert, sister-in-law Katherine Thimelby, sister Gertrude and their friend Lady Dorothy Shirley contributed.[4] Four of the poems in the anthology also appear in Tixall Poetry and the manuscript, HM 904.[6] She began the anthology in the 1630s and made the last entry in 1658. The manuscript now resides at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California (number HM 904).[6]

Constance married Walter Fowler in about 1634–1635 and had 12 children; Walter, Edward, William, Bryan, Thomas, Francis, Constance, Dorothy, Gertrude, Constance, Mary, and Magdalen. Edward, Bryan, Francis and Constance all died young.[7] Constance died on March 29, 1664, and is buried at Baswich, Staffordshire.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Fowler, Constance Aston, approximately 1621-". Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  2. ^ Burke, Victoria E. "Aston, Herbert (bap. 1614, d. 1688/9), poet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68247. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Aldrich-Watson, Deborah (2000). The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition. Tempe, Arizona: Renaissance English Text Society. p. xxiii. ISBN 978-0-8018-6139-0.
  4. ^ a b c d Ezell, Margaret (1999). Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-8018-6139-0.
  5. ^ Ezell, Margaret (1999). Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-8018-6139-0.
  6. ^ a b Aldrich-Watson, Deborah (2000). The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition. Tempe, Arizona: Renaissance English Text Society. p. x. ISBN 0-86698-252-3.
  7. ^ Aldrich-Watson, Deborah (2000). The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition. Tempe, Arizona: Renaissance English Text Society. p. xxix. ISBN 0-86698-252-3.
  8. ^ Aldrich-Watson, Deborah (2000). The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition. Tempe, Arizona: Renaissance English Text Society. p. xxix. ISBN 0-86698-252-3.

Primary sources

  • Fowler, Constance Aston (2000). The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition. Tempe, Ariz: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in conjunction with Renaissance English Text Society. p. 206. ISBN 0-86698-252-3.
  • Clifford, Arthur (1813). Tixall poetry with notes and illustrations. Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne.

Secondary sources

  • Burke, Victoria Elizabeth (1996). Women and Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Culture: Miscellanies, Commonplace Books, and Song Books Compiled by English and Scottish Women, 1600-1660 (PhD thesis). University of Oxford.
  • Burke, Victoria Elizabeth (1997). "Women and Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Culture: Four Miscellanies". The Seventeenth Century. 12 (2): 135–150. doi:10.1080/0268117X.1997.10555427. ISSN 0268-117X.
  • La Belle, Jenijoy (1980). "Huntington Aston Manuscript: First-Line index of the MS". The Book Collector. 29: 549–67.
  • LaBelle, Jenijoy (1980). "A True Love's Knot: The Letters of Constance Fowler and the Poems of Herbert Aston". Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 79: 13–31.

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