Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln

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ECCL published her sole text in the earlier seventeenth century: an unusual advice-manual which handles in very personal terms the topic of a woman's religious and maternal duty to breast-feed her own children, even if she is a member of the upper classes.

Milestones

Probably 1574
Elizabeth Knyvett, later Countess of Lincoln , was born.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
420
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Probably 1630
Elizabeth, Countess of Lincoln , died; she was in her fifties.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Biography

Birth and Early Life

Probably 1574
Elizabeth Knyvett, later Countess of Lincoln , was born.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
420
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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