fl. 1653?
Nothing is known, and little can be deduced from her only book, except chronic illness – ‘restrained from bodily employment’ – and religious orthodoxy. The verse shows considerable technical experimentation and skill.
Divine Songs and Meditacions Composed By An Collins (London, 1653); reprinted in Stanley N. Stewart (ed.), (Augustan Reprint Society Pubs., San Marino, Calif., 1961).