Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny
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both collected and composed devotional writings during the sixteenth century, which reached print after her death.
, including a generous selection in his Monument of Matrones, 1582, presents them as concerned exclusively with private, domestic manners; recent scholarship suggests that Abergavenny's poems also respond to political-religious controversy, and that Bentley was not the only anthologist to make use of them.
Biography
Birth and Family
The birthdate of Frances Manners (later
) is unknown; from the date of her daughter's birth it must have been during the 1530s. She was one of a family of ten children.