IW
says she read the Bible, then history, then Latin authors both classical and Renaissance: Virgil
, Ovid
, and Mantuan
.
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Education
Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
As a girl, Mary Eleanor Bowes received an excellent education and could speak several languages, reading French and Italian authors in the original. It was said that she did not learn Latin, but also that...
Education
Marie de France
MF was an effective user of both the English and Latin languages, though she wrote in French (that is, Old French). She also had some Breton. She was familiar with the Latin poet Ovid
as...
Education
Melesina Trench
After the deaths of her parents Melesina Chenevix was committed to the care of a governess who had a determination to rule by rigour. . . . The fear and distaste I had for her...
Anthologization
Aphra Behn
Apart from many more or less creatively distant imitations, AB
produced several actual translations.
Scholars sometimes differ about what to class as largely original and what not.