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COWLEY, HANNAH (1743-1809) , English dramatist and poet, daughter of Philip Parkhouse, a bookseller at Tiverton, Devon-shire, was born in 1743. When about twenty-five years old she married Mr Cowley, of the East
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opinion that she could write as good a piece as the one being performed, and within a fortnight she had written her first play, The Runaway. She sent it to Garrick
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Bride . Mrs Cowley was the author of a number of indifferent poems, mainly historical, and under the name of " Anna Matilda," which has since become proverbial, she carried on a sentimental correspondence in the World with Robert Merry. She died at Tiverton on the r 1 th of March
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