A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Bins, (Anne de)

BINS, (ANNE DE) a Native of Anvers in the 16th Century. A Woman of Learning, but a violent Bigot,

Refused to be married, that she might devote herself entirely to the belles lettres. She composed poems in the Flemish language against heretics; and her admirers have called her a second Sappho.

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