Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Elizabeth Richardson
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Standard Name: Richardson, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Beaumont
Married Name: Elizabeth Ashburnham
Titled: Elizabeth, Lady Ashburnham
Married Name: Elizabeth Richardson
Titled: Elizabeth Richardson, Baroness of Cramond
Elizabeth Richardson, Lady Cramond
(formerly Ashburnham), was a seventeenth-century devotional writer (of prayers and meditations, maxims, and a treatise on life and death, as well as letters) over a period of almost forty years. She had a strong commitment to the religious education of her daughters, and for them, and for other readers too, she left a published mother's legacy made up of revisions of earlier writings.
Whatever was the exact nature and function of KP
's Society of Friendship
, it was a group which she built for herself, to overcome the solitude of Wales and bind herself to like-minded friends...
Intertextuality and Influence
Dorothy Leigh
DL
's book probably influenced the compilation and publication of those by Elizabeth Joscelin
and Elizabeth Richardson
.
Leigh, Dorothy, Elizabeth Joscelin, and Elizabeth Richardson. Women’s Writing in Stuart England. Editor Brown, Sylvia, Sutton, 1999.
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Editor Sylvia Brown
sees her as in some sense a foremother of the women preachers who...
Reception
Elizabeth Joscelin
EJ
has, curiously, attracted less critical attention than Dorothy Leigh
(whom Sylvia Brown believes to have been an influence on her writing)
Leigh, Dorothy, Elizabeth Joscelin, and Elizabeth Richardson. Women’s Writing in Stuart England. Editor Brown, Sylvia, Sutton, 1999.
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or Elizabeth Richardson
, but Teresa Feroli
published an article on her...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Grymeston
EG
's prefatory epistle offers advice on the conduct of his life to her son Bernye, and further good counsel is prominent. This book (which also includes poems and prayers) is both the earliest extant...
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Texts
Richardson, Elizabeth. A Ladies Legacie to her Daughters. Thomas Harper, 1645.
Richardson, Elizabeth, Dorothy Leigh, Elizabeth Joscelin, Dorothy Leigh, and Elizabeth Joscelin. “A Ladies Legacie to Her Daughters”. Women’s Writing in Stuart England, edited by Sylvia Brown, Sutton, 1999, pp. 157-8.
Joscelin, Elizabeth, Dorothy Leigh, Elizabeth Richardson, Dorothy Leigh, and Elizabeth Richardson. “Elizabeth Joscelin’s Manuscript Mother’s Legacy”. Women’s Writing in Stuart England, edited by Sylvia Brown, Sutton, 1999, pp. 106-39.
Leigh, Dorothy, Elizabeth Joscelin, Elizabeth Richardson, Elizabeth Joscelin, and Elizabeth Richardson. “The Mothers Blessing”. Women’s Writing in Stuart England, edited by Sylvia Brown, Sutton, 1999, pp. 15-87.
Leigh, Dorothy, Elizabeth Joscelin, and Elizabeth Richardson. Women’s Writing in Stuart England. Editor Brown, Sylvia, Sutton, 1999.