Elizabeth Joscelin

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The most learned as well as the most self-deprecating of the seventeenth-century writers of mother's legacies, EJ composed her deeply religious text when pregnant with her first child, in the belief (accurate, as it turned out) that she would not survive the birth. The poetry which she also wrote is not, apparently, extant.

Milestones

1596

Elizabeth Brooke (later EJ ) was born, the only child of her parents' marriage, though she had step-sisters from her father's second marriage.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Leigh, Dorothy et al. Women’s Writing in Stuart England. Editor Brown, Sylvia, Sutton.
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21 October 1622

EJ died of puerperal fever nine days after the birth of her daughter.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

12 January 1624

EJ 's The Mothers Legacie, to her unborne childe was entered in the Stationers' Register. It was posthumously published with her name the same year.
Leigh, Dorothy et al. Women’s Writing in Stuart England. Editor Brown, Sylvia, Sutton.
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English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Biography

Birth and Family

1596

Elizabeth Brooke (later EJ ) was born, the only child of her parents' marriage, though she had step-sisters from her father's second marriage.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Leigh, Dorothy et al. Women’s Writing in Stuart England. Editor Brown, Sylvia, Sutton.
93

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