Candler, Ann (1740–1814)

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Candler, Ann (1740–1814)

British poet. Name variations: Ann More Candler. Born Ann More in 1740; died 1814; children: 4 (3 died in infancy).

Spent time with her children in Ipswich workhouse as result of husband's alcoholism; was eventually supported by Elizabeth Cobbold and others; wrote poems for Ipswich journal and detailed her life in Poetical Attempts by Ann Candler, a Suffolk Cottager, with a Short Narrative of Her Life (1803).