Anne Dutton

Born in Northampton, she survived a near-fatal childhood illness, from which "she acquired an acute sense of sin.

Aged 22 she married a Mr Coles, living in London and Warwick, before being widowed five years later.

[2] In 1747 her husband travelled to America to raise money, but she became widowed again when his return ship was lost at sea.

[3] Dutton's Narration of the Wonders of Grace (1734) was a 1500-line poem in heroic couplets, complete with marginal references to Scripture, reviewing redemption history from the point of view of Calvinist Baptists.

(A modern scholar has called it "execrable verse, interesting only as testimony to the mental tilt of a particular kind of zealot".