Anne Long
Anne Long
Anne Long, was born at Draycot Cerne, Wiltshire, one of six children of James Longand his wife, Susanna, née Strangways. A celebrated beauty, she was the granddaughter of Sir James Long, 2nd Baronet, and of another leading civil war politician, Giles Strangways. She seems to have spent much of her childhood at her maternal grandparent's home at Melbury, Dorchester, Dorset, probably due to her parents' unhappy marriage. Privately educated, she never married. Long was greatly admired by Jonathan Swift, although...