Anne Ley

Anne (Norman) Ley (c. 1599 – 1641) was an English writer, teacher, and polemicist. She wrote several poems, letters, meditations, and funerary texts. Her husband was Roger Ley, a writer and a curate of St. Leonard’s Church in Shoreditch, Middlesex. Both of the couple were ardent royalists and religious conformists. Her commonplace book and works survive to this day, compiled into a manuscript by her husband after her death in 1641.

Anne Ley

Anne (Norman) Ley (c. 1599 – 1641) was an English writer, teacher, and polemicist. She wrote several poems, letters, meditations, and funerary texts. Her husband was Roger Ley, a writer and a curate of St. Leonard’s Church in Shoreditch, Middlesex. Both of the couple were ardent royalists and religious conformists. Her commonplace book and works survive to this day, compiled into a manuscript by her husband after her death in 1641.