Ann Batten Cristall (
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Short biography
Cristall was a poet and author of Poetical Sketches, published in 1795. She was the daughter of Joshua Cristall, figure and landscape painter of Camborne. See McKenzie, C. Women Writers and Georgian Cornwall (2020) and Hardie, M. Brontë Territories: Cornwall and the Unexplored Maternal Legacy (2019) for Cristall's connection to the Brontë sisters and to notable Romantic poets.
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Date of birth (approx)
c. 1769
Place of birth
Penzance, Cornwall
Date of death
09 February 1848
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