Rose Hickman

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Standard Name: Hickman, Rose
Birth Name: Rose Locke
Used Form: Rose Lok
Used Form: Rose Lock
Married Name: Rose Throckmorton
RH was an earnest and committed Protestant during the sixteenth century's religious conflicts. She is remembered for the account she wrote down (in 1610 at the age of eighty-four) of her life. It is personal and also historical, relating her religious beliefs and their doctrinal foundations, and the practical problems they brought for her family's domestic and business life. It is quite possible that she left other writings, but they seem not to have survived.
Higginbotham, Jennifer. “The Exile of Rose Hickman Throckmorton”. Reformation, Vol.
15
, No. 1, pp. 99-114.
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Painting of Rose Hickman by a follower of John de Critz, 1596, the day after her seventieth birthday. Her pale face, white ruff, and hands (one holding a glove) are all that emerge from her dark cloak, cap, and belt, and a dark background. Her age and the date are noted in Latin, her name and those of her father and first husband in English. Gainsborough Old Hall.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Grace, Lady Mildmay
Warnicke says this text is significant as the earliest autobiography written, as opposed to dictated, by an Englishwoman.
Warnicke, Retha M. “Lady Mildmay’s Journal: A Study in Autobiography and Meditation in Reformation England”. Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol.
20
, No. 1, pp. 55-68.
55
Though this is at least arguable, its early date does add to its value.
Even if...
Friends, Associates Anne Locke
They may have first met during the previous winter.
Morin-Parsons, Kel, and Anne Locke. “Preface, Introduction, Textual Note”. A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner, edited by Kel Morin-Parsons and Kel Morin-Parsons, North Waterloo Academic Press, pp. 9-40.
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This relationship is known from thirteen surviving letters written by Knox to her (or to her and her sister-in-law Rose Hickman ).
Morin-Parsons, Kel, and Anne Locke. “Preface, Introduction, Textual Note”. A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner, edited by Kel Morin-Parsons and Kel Morin-Parsons, North Waterloo Academic Press, pp. 9-40.
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In November...

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Hickman, Rose. Certain Old Storyes Recorded by an Aged Gentlewoman to be Perused by her Children and Posterity.