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Lucy Hutchinson
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Standard Name: Hutchinson, Lucy
Birth Name: Lucy Apsley
Married Name: Lucy Hutchinson
LH
has been long known as the author of memoirs of her husband which are also a significant historical account of the Englich Civil War. Her petitions and religious writings were also known, though less read than the memoir. With the late-twentieth-century appearance in print of further works (original poems, and verse translations or paraphrases from Lucretius
and from the Bible), she is beginning to assume the appearance of a major poet.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Wharton | AW
's father, Sir Henry Lee
of Ditchley Park, about four miles from Woodstock, Oxfordshire, died of smallpox before she was born. His family had connections with Elizabeth Cary (Lady Falkland)
, Lucy Hutchinson
, and Katherine Philips
. Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1 - 124. 21-2 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lucy Aikin | LA
's preface denies the absurd notion that absolute gender equality might be feasible and advises women not to attempt to become inferior men. But she asserts, there is not an endowment, or propensity, or... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maria De Fleury | She heads her work with the quotation What think ye of Christ? (a question which St Matthew's Gospel reports Jesus as asking the Pharisees, arguably as a kind of trick), and adds, admiringly, others from... |
| Leisure and Society | Carola Oman | In a letter to the Times in 1962, CO
described a bookcase in her writing-room which held the works she described as All the Winners. For a writer of fairly conservative views and strong... |
| Literary responses | Lady Rachel Russell | As love-letters, they made a great and immediate impression on their readers. Yet later this year Mary Russell Mitford
wrote of LRR
with dislike. Mitford found her heavy, preachy, and prosy. As a writer, she... |
| Reception | Lady Anne Clifford | In 2003 Cumbria Record Office
in Kendal bought from Sotheby's
a complete set of the Great Books, a fair copy made in the years preceding 1652, with about 70 pages of LAC
's own... |
| Reception | Brilliana, Lady Harley | After having been long admired for their picture of female heroism in time of need, BLH
's letters are now coming under scrutiny as expressions of domestic Puritan ideology and of the involvement of private... |
| Textual Features | Aphra Behn | She praised Creech's version (the first available in English) as making ancient learning available to women, whose education (according to the scanted Customs of the Nation) Behn, Aphra. The Works of Aphra Behn. Todd, JanetEditor , William Pickering, 1992. 1: 25 |
| Textual Features | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | The letters span nearly fifty years, from 1810 to 1856. They give a vivid picture of CFC
's dedication to her studies and her publications. (The first records returning a copy of Elizabeth Montagu
's... |
| Textual Production | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | According to George Ballard
, MLC
left in manuscript occasional poems, imitations and translations of Lucian
(also translated by Lucy Hutchinson
), two tragedies, two operas, and a masque. Mary, Lady Chudleigh,. “Introduction”. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh, edited by Margaret J. M. Ezell, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xvii - xxxvi. xxxv |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | DSCS
was close to her son-in-law, and continued a correspondence with him years after her daughter's death. Her letters to Halifax were published by Mary Berry
in 1819, together with the letters of Lady Rachel Russell |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Louisa Stuart | LLS
's correspondence during the years 1827-39, when she was composing her Introductory Anecdotes on her grandmother, throws much light on attitudes to female authorship. Selections includes her acute, even satirical, comment on the Bluestockings... |
Timeline
20 August 1642
Charles I
raised his standard at Nottingham with the intention of reducing his rebellious people to subjection: thus began the English Civil War.
11 September 1648
In a petition to Parliament
, a group of Englishwomen claimed a proportionable share in the Freedoms of this commonwealth with men.
Between 14 and 17 October 1660
A group of those associated with the execution of Charles I
(several of the almost sixty Regicides who in various official capacities had signed his death-warrant, and others) were executed by hanging.