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''For this author's namesake, the social reformer, see Anne Knight.'' Anne Knight (born Anne Waspe; 28 October 1792 in Woodbridge, Suffolk – 11 December 1860 in Woodbridge, Suffolk) was a Quaker children's writer and educationalist. ==Life== Anne was the eldest of the eight children of Jonathan Waspe (c. 1756–1818), a leather cutter, and his wife Phebe Gibbs (1761–1851). She married a cousin and fellow Quaker James Knight (1794–1820) of Southwark, but returned to Woodbridge after his early death. By 1826, Anne Knight was keeping a Woodbridge school. She was a friend of the poet Bernard Barton, who lodged with her and her sisters,〔E. V. Lucas: ''Bernard Barton and His Friends'' (London: E. Hicks, 1893), p. 11. () Retrieved 4 November 2010.〕 and she is therefore mentioned several times in letters to him from Charles Lamb: "Your book... we cannot thank you for more sincerely than for the introduction you favoured us with to Anne Knight."〔Alfred Ainger, ed.: ''The Letters of Charles Lamb''. Letter CCLXV to Bernard Barton, 2 July 1825. () Retrieved 6 November 2010.〕 "So A. K. keeps a school... she teaches nothing wrong, I'll answer for't."〔Percy Fitzgerald: ''The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb'', p. 326. (Retrieved 6 November 2010. )〕 She died at her Woodbridge home on 11 December 1860 and was interred in the Quaker burial ground there.〔Edward H. Milligan: Knight, Anne (1786–1862). ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford: OUP, 2004) (Retrieved 4 November 2010 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anne Knight (children's writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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