Constance Aston Fowler

Who is Constance Aston Fowler?

Constance Aston Fowler was a seventeenth-century English manuscript author and anthologist. Born "Constance Aston" about 1621, she was the youngest child of Sir Walter Aston. Her home was The Priory at St. Thomas, near the family home of Tixal Hall in Lincolnshire and Staffordshire.

Her Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler is studied as an example of "how manuscript texts were produced, disseminated, and preserved in provincial areas." "Constance Aston Fowler constructed her own private anthology, in which she mingled the poems of her family with ones by Ben Jonson, Henry King, and John Donne. Her father, her brother Herbert, her sister Gertrude, and their friend Lady Dorothy Shirley contributed poetry.