A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Seymour, Anne, Margaret, and Jane

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SEYMOUR, ANNE, MARGARET, AND JANE,

Daughters of Edward, Duke of Somerset, were known for their poetical talents. Their one hundred and four Latin distichs on the death of Margaret of Valois, Queen of France, were translated into French, Greek, and Italian, and printed in Paris in 1551, but possess little merit. Anne married the Earl of Warwick, and afterwards Sir Edward Hunter. Margaret and Jane died single. Jane was maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth, and died in 1560, at the age of twenty.