Grierson, Constantia (c. 1706–c. 1732)
Grierson, Constantia (c. 1706–c. 1732)
Irish poet. Born c. 1706 in Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland; died c. 1732 in Dublin, Ireland; m. George Grierson, c. 1726.
Translated Virgil (1724), Terence (1727), and Tacitus (1730); poems appear in M. Barber, Poems on Several Occasions (1734), L. Pilkington, The Memoirs of Mrs Laetitia Pilkington 1712–50. Written by Herself (1748–1754), and G. Colman and B. Thornton (eds.), Poems by Eminent Ladies (1755).
See also R. Lonsdale, ed., Eighteenth-Century Women Poets (1989).
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