Distinguished by her talent for poetry, the daughter of a dissenting minister at Bath; and born at Malmsbury in Wiltshire in 1687. She was bred a milliner; but from her childhood had a turn for poetry, and in her riper years applied herself to the study of the poets. Her poems, for which she was complimented by Mr. Pope, breath the spirit of piety and philosophy. She had the misfortune to be deformed, which determined her to live single; though she had great sweetness of countenance, and was solicited to marry. She died in 1745, aged fifty-eight.
