Thomas Bentley

She wrote original poetry all her life, though individual pieces are hard to date. Bradner , editor of her poems, counts them as six certain and ten doubtful, besides six verse translations. Some of...

Tyrwhit's prayers were reprinted, much revised, re-ordered, and expanded, by Thomas Bentley in the second lampe of his anthology The Monument of Matrones, 1582, with such radical revision and expansion that Felch (who reprints...

AR 's uncle by marriage Thomas Bentley was a merchant and a leading dissenter, who had friends among influential Dissenting circles, and in 1768 became a partner of Josiah Wedgwood.

FNBA both collected and composed devotional writings during the sixteenth century, which reached print after her death. Thomas Bentley , including a generous selection in his Monument of Matrones, 1582, presents them as concerned...

FNBA highly valued her collection of prayers. According to the title given them by Thomas Bentley in 1582, they were committed at the houre of hir death, to the right Worshipfull Ladie MARIE Fane (hir...

Her prayers became publicly well-known through Thomas Bentley 's printing of fifty of them, some long, in his Monument of Matrones in 1582 under the title The Praiers made by the right Honourable Ladie Frances...

Knowledge of AA 's writing spread rapidly. The reactionary Stephen Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester, complained on 6 June 1547 of the number of copies in circulation.John Foxe gave it a still wider...

Phillips may have been commissioned to finish the collection after the death of FNBA : he worked for London publishers, and wrote several commemorative poems for the recently dead, including Sir Philip Sidney . Scholars...