Dryden, is the duchess of Monmouth, whose maiden name was Anne Scott (countess of Buccleuch).  She married again after the execution of her faithless husband.

With secret joy indulgent David [Charles II.] viewed His youthful image in his son renewed; To all his wishes nothing he denied, And made the charming Annabel his bride.  Part i.

ANNABEL LEE.  Edgar A. Poe’s poem of this name is supposed to be a loving memorial to his young wife, Virginia Clemm, who died of consumption at Fordham, N.Y., in 1847.

  The angels, not half so happy in heaven
  Went envying her and me;
  Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,
  In this kingdom by the sea)
  That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
  Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. (1848.)

ANNA PASTORIUS, wife of Pastorius in Whittier’s poem, The Pennsylvania Pilgrim.  At his cry “Help! for the good man faileth!” she points to her aloe-tree, and reminds him that as surely as “the century-moulded bud shall burst in bloom,” love and patience will soon or late conquer wrong (1872).

AN’NAPLE [BAILZOU], Effie Dean’s “monthly” nurse.—­Sir W. Scott, Heart of Midlothian (time, George II.).

An’naple, nurse of Hobbie Elliot of the Heugh-foot, a young farmer.—­Sir W. Scott, The Black Dwarf (time, Anne).

ANNE (Sister), the sister of Fat’ima, the seventh and last wife of Blue Beard.  Fatima, having disobeyed her lord by looking into the locked chamber, is allowed a short respite before execution.  Sister Anne ascends the high tower of the castle, with the hope of seeing her brothers, who are expected to arrive every moment.  Fatima, in her agony, keeps asking “sister Anne” if she can see them, and Blue Beard keeps crying out for Fatima to use greater despatch.  As the patience of both is exhausted, the brothers arrive, and Fatima is rescued from death.—­Charles Perrault, La Barbe Bleue.

Anne, own sister of king Arthur.  Her father was Uther the pendragon, and her mother Ygerna, widow of Gorlois.  She was given by her brother in marriage to Lot, consul of Londonesia, and afterwards king of Norway.—­Geoffrey, British History, viii. 20, 21.

[Illustration] In Arthurian romance this Anne is called Margawse (History of Prince Arthur, i. 2); Tennyson calls her Bellicent (Gareth and Lynette).  In Arthurian romance Lot is always called king of Orkney.

ANNE CATHERICK, half-witted girl, the natural sister of Laura Fairlie, to whom she bears a strong resemblance.  This circumstance suggests to the villain of the book the deception of showing her dead body as that of Laura, as a step toward securing the fortune of the latter.—­The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins (1865).

ANNE DOUGLAS, heroine of Anne, a novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson (1882).  The scene laid on the Island of Mackinac, Mich.