Aemilia Lanyer

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AL is an important poet, technically sophisticated and powerfully expressive. Her single known work is a composite volume dated 1611, which handles religious narrative (expanded from the gospel story), theological and feminist argument, natural description, and poems of compliment to her female patrons, with equal skill. The same volume contains the earliest country-house poem published in English.
  • BirthName: Aemilia or Emilia
    This is sometimes spelled Emilia. Her modern editor and biographer, Susanne Woods , uses the large A and small e, not a ligature. The ODNB spells Emilia Lanier.
    Bassano
  • Married: Lanyer
  • Indexed: Lanier
Photograph of a miniature painting of Aemilia Lanyer by Nicholas Hilliard, shown from the shoulders up, wearing a white gown with gold and black lacing, white and black beaded necklaces, and a broad lace ruff that fills most of the oval portrait. Her dark curly hair is pulled back by a low crown of white and black beads and gold.

Milestones

Probably early 1569

Aemilia Bassano (later AL ) was born in London.
Woods, Susanne. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. Oxford University Press, 1999.
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2 October 1610

AL 's long narrative poem on the passion of Christ, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, was entered in the Stationers' Register .
Woods, Susanne, and Aemilia Lanyer. “Introduction”. The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xv - li.
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March or April 1645

AL died in London.
Woods, Susanne. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Biography

Birth

Probably early 1569

Aemilia Bassano (later AL ) was born in London.
Woods, Susanne. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. Oxford University Press, 1999.
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