A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Howard, Anne, Viscountess Irwin
HOWARD, ANNE, VISCOUNTESS IRWIN,
Was daughter of the Earl of Carlisle, and married first the Viscount Irwin, and afterwards Colonel Douglas. She was a poetess, and wrote in a very spirited style. She died in 1760. The best known of her poems is the one in reply to Pope's sarcastic reflections on the sex, in his "Characters of Women."