Henry Fitzalan, twelfth Earl of Arundel

LJL 's surviving writings are almost all translations. Among them are Latin versions of orations written in Greek by Isocrates . With these are two original dedications written in Latin and addressed to her father .

Jane's education, still in progress at the date of her early marriage, partook of that window during the English Renaissance when it was fashionable to give upper-class girls a scholarly training. She, her sister Mary...

Her father, Henry Fitzalan, twelfth Earl of Arundel , was an ambitious and formidable man. He was a patron of the arts and of scholarship, and made his library the finest in England at the time.

Soon after she became a child bride, LJL , still living in her father 's house, made the earliest extant English translation of a Greek tragedy: Iphigeneia from Euripides .

LJL was a Renaissance translator who distinguished herself by producing the earliest extant English version of a tragedy by Euripides , which is also the earliest play by a woman in English. She also translated...