Canons Ashby House
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Canons Ashby House is a Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house located in the village of Canons Ashby, about 11 miles south of the town of Daventry in the county of Northamptonshire, England. It has b
Front of Canons Ashby House
Kitchen range at Canons Ashby House
Rear of Canons Ashby House
The Great Hall
John Dryden
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John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England
Canons Ashby House
…and gate piers from 1710. There is also the remains of a medieval priory church (from which the house gets its name). The house was the home of the Dryden family since its construction in the 16th century; the manor house was built in approximately 1550 with additions in the 1590s, in the 1630s and 1710…
Portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, c. 1693
Dryden, by John Michael Wright, 1668
Dryden, by James Maubert, c. 1695
Frontispiece and title page, vol. II, 1716 edition, Works of Virgil translated by Dryden