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, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Leigh, Dorothy, Elizabeth Joscelin, and Elizabeth Richardson. Women’s Writing in Stuart England. Brown, SylviaEditor , Sutton, 1999.
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21 October 1622
EJ died of puerperal fever nine days after the birth of her daughter.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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, Elizabeth Joscelin, and Elizabeth Richardson. Women’s Writing in Stuart England. Brown, SylviaEditor , Sutton, 1999.
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English Short Title Catalogue.

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, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Leigh, Dorothy, Elizabeth Joscelin, and Elizabeth Richardson. Women’s Writing in Stuart England. Brown, SylviaEditor , Sutton, 1999.
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