Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln

01 January 1574 - 01 January 1630

Standard Name: Lincoln, Elizabeth Clinton,,, Countess of

Birth Name: Elizabeth Knyvett

Married Name: Elizabeth Clinton

Titled: Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln

Used Form: Elizabeth, Lady Lincoln

ECCL published her sole text in the earlier seventeenth century: an unusual advice-manual which handles in very personal terms the topic of a woman's religious and maternal duty to breast-feed her own children, even if she is a member of the upper classes.

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Family and Intimate relationships	Anne Bradstreet	AB 's father, Thomas Dudley , wrote poetry himself and encouraged his daughter both to study and to write. In 1619 he became steward to the Earl of Lincoln (eldest son of the author Elizabeth Countess of Lincoln

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