Anne Locke Anne Locke Anne Locke (Lock, Lok) (1530 – after 1590) was an English poet, translator and Calvinist religious figure. She was the first English author to publish a sonnet sequence, "A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner" (1560). Anne Locke was the daughter of Stephen Vaughan, a merchant, royal envoy, and prominent early supporter of the Protestant Reformation. Her mother, Margaret (or Margery) Gwynnethe (or Guinet) was a silkwoman in the Tudor court who worked for both Anne Boleyn and Catherine Parr. Anne was the eldest surviving child, and had two siblings, Jane and Stephen (b. 4 October 1537). Following the
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter is a book by Katherine Anne Porter published by Harcourt in 1965, comprising nineteen "short stories and long stories", as Porter herself would say. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. "Collected Stories", in addition to four exclusive new stories, contains all stories previously collected in "Flowering Judas"; "Pale Horse, Pale Rider"; and "The Leaning Tower". In the preface "Go Little Book ...", Porter abjured the word "novella", calling it a "slack, boneless, affected word that we do