Judith (Booth) Cowper

Further commonplace-book volumes compiled by SLC include excerpts from the Bible and from moral authors (among whom Plutarch is prominent), her own bible commentary (begun in May 1700), a volume of prayers, meditations, an index...

She had met him three years before this as a consequence of consulting him on a matter of law; since then his first wife, Judith (Booth) Cowper , and his only (legitimate) child had died...

Lady Cowper bore Sir William four sons in six years. They were educated at boarding schools, apparently not by their mother's choice, and she was also not happy about the early marriages contracted by the...

The marital letters are much taken up by quarrelling. SLC 's letters to her eldest son are also, especially in earlier years, full of complaint. She depicts her daughter-in-law Judith (Booth) Cowper , for instance...