Married at 16, sent away at 19, became a courtesan and a plaything, then a Daoist nun, and a poet, executed at 28, allegedly for strangling her maidservant, but perhaps for her frankly honest poetry. This is Yu Xuanji, late Tang poet (魚玄機, Yú Xuánjī, c840–c868), who left behind a book of poetry that was lost, and is remembered thanks to poets of the Song dynasty who gathered up what remained.
100 Tang Poems 