Emilia Lanier
Emilia Lanier / Emilia Lanyer | |
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Portrait by Nicholas Hilliard, suggested to be Lanier | |
| Born | Aemilia Bassano 1569 |
| Died | 1645 (aged 75–76) London, England |
| Movement | English Renaissance |
| Spouse |
Alfonso Lanier (died 1613) |
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Emilia Lanier (née Aemilia Bassano; 1569–1645) was the first woman in England to assert herself as a professional poet, through her volume Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (Hail, God, King of the Jews, 1611). Attempts have been made to equate her with Shakespeare's "Dark Lady".