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Anne Killigrew (1660–1685) was an English poet whose collection of poems was published after her death, making her one of the early English women poets. Public information about her life is limited, and existing accounts center mainly on this posthumous collection. Her poetic work belongs to the context of seventeenth-century English literature, and her poems became known as a collection only after her death—a mode of publication that itself reflects the circumstances women writers faced at the time. As an early English woman poet, her name is often associated with the emerging female literary voices of that period, and the survival of her collection offers a reference text for later understanding of seventeenth-century English women's poetry.

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