About Ann Candler
Lived 1740 – 1814 (aged 73–74). Ann Candler was a poet, autobiographer and writer.
Ann Candler (1740–1814) was a poet, known as "The Suffolk Cottager", whose works appeared in the Ipswich Journal and a volume published toward the end of her life.
Life Ann More was born at Yoxford, Suffolk, 18 November 1740, one of the children of William More, a glover there; her mother was a daughter of Thomas Holder of Woodbridge, the surveyor of the window-lights for that part of the county. In 1750 her father moved to Ipswich, where his wife died in 1751.
Ann taught herself to read and write, and studied all accessible travels, plays, and romances. In 1762 she married Candler, a cottager in Sproughton, a village about three miles out of Ipswich. From 1763 to 1766 Candler served in the militia (Poetical Attempts, p. 5), and this service, combined with the man's drinking habits, kept Ann and her growing family poor. Her book, Poetical Attempts was published at Ipswich in 1803.
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English poet
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