Anne Wheathill

Anne Wheathill (fl. 1584) was an English poet known for A Handfull of Holesome (though Homelie) Hearbs, a collection of forty-nine prayers.^[1][2] A Handfull of Holesome (though Homelie) Hearbs is the first nonaristocratic English gentlewoman's book of prayers.^[3] Characteristic to the period, the Reformist^[4] prayers' topics include admission of transgressions, entreaty for forgiveness, the glory of God, and connection to the divine.^[5] The collection was published by Henry Denham.^[6][7] The only known original copy of A Handfull of Holesome (though Homelie) Hearbs is held by the Folger Shakespeare Library.^[8]

References

1. Matthew, H. C. G., ed. (2004). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 58. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 410. ISBN 0-19-861408-X.
2. Wynne-Davies, Marion, ed. (1997). Dictionary of English Literature (2nd ed.). Bloomsbury – via Credo Reference.
3. Atkinson, Colin; Atkinson, Jo (Autumn 1996). "Anne Wheathill's A Handfull of Holesome (though Homelie) Hearbs (1584): The First English Gentlewoman's Prayer Book". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 27 (3): 659–672. doi:10.2307/2544010. JSTOR 2544010.
4. Hackett, Helen (1999). Cambridge Guide to Women's Writings in English. Cambridge University Press. p. 662. ISBN 978-0521668132. OCLC 848840673.
5. Loughlin, Marie (2012). The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose. Canada: Broadview Press. pp. 454–456. ISBN 9781551111629.
6. Atkinson, Colin B.; Atkinson, Jo (Spring 1998). "Numerical patterning in Anne Wheathill's A Handfull of Holesome (though Homelie) Hearbs (1584)". Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 40 (1): 1–25. JSTOR 40755137.
7. Demers, Patricia (2005). Women's Writing in English: Early Modern England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 119. ISBN 9781442627376.
8. Cullen, Patrick (2016). Anne Wheathill Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 9. Routledge. ISBN 978-1859281000.

External links

• Folger Shakespeare Library catalog entry