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.
  • BirthName: Elizabeth Knyvett
    This name is spelled in other ways as well: the ODNB spells it Knevitt.

  • Married: ClintonCountess of Lincoln
  • Titled: ClintonCountess of Lincoln

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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Probably 1630

Elizabeth, Countess of Lincoln , died; she was in her fifties.
Blain, Virginia et al., 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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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