Saturday, 4 September 2010

Anne Donne





Birth: 1584
Death: 1617

Wife of the poet John Donne. Her memorial was destroyed many years ago but the text of her epitaph survives in her husband's handwriting, and was used to create this tablet. 'Her husband John Donne made speechless by grief, sets up this stone to speak, brings his ashes to hers in a new marriage under God'. Cause of death: in childbirth (bio by: David Conway) 

 
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Burial:
St Clement Danes Churchyard 
London
Greater London, England
Plot: Crypt
 
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Feb 02, 2001 
Find A Grave Memorial# 20076
Anne Donne
Added by: David Conway
 
Anne Donne
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