Anne Locke (Lock, Lok) (c.1533 – after 1590) was an English poet, translator and Calvinist religious figure. She has been called the first English author to publish a sonnet sequence, A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner (1560), although authorship of that work has arguably been attributed to Thomas Norton.[1][2][3]
- ^ P. Collinson, 'Locke [née Vaughan; other married names Dering, Prowse], Anne (c. 1530–1590x1607)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).
- ^ Steven W. May, "Anne Lock and Thomas Norton's Meditation of a Penitent Sinner", Modern Philology 114.4 (2017), 793-819.
- ^ Jake Arthur, "Anne Lock or Thomas Norton? A Response to the Reattribution of the First Sonnet Sequence in English", Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 16.2 (2022), 213-236.