Lady Jane Lumley

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LJL was a Renaissance translator who distinguished herself by producing the earliest extant English version of a tragedy by Euripides , which is also the earliest play by a woman in English. She also translated orations and wrote dedications of her writing to her father .
Black and white photograph of a painting of Lady Jane Lumley by Sieuwert van der Meulen, 1563, companion piece to a portrait of her husband. She stands in formal pose, wearing a long dark skirt and bodice with embroidered decoration. Her tight sleeves are puffed at the shoulders and the gold under-sleeves have small slashes. She has two rows of blue stones below a small ruff, and a circlet head ornament. In one hand she holds a pomander, in the other what might be the household purse.A small label is not le

Milestones

About 1537

Lady Jane Fitzalan (later LJL ) was born, the eldest in a family of three.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

About 1550

Soon after she became a child bride, LJL , still living in her father 's house, made the earliest extant English translation of a Greek tragedy: Iphigeneia from Euripides .
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

27 July 1578

Lady Jane Lumley died at Arundel House in London.
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1909

LJL 's translated tragedy was printed for the first time in an edition by Harold H. Child in the Malone Society Reprints series, under the title Iphigenia at Aulis.
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Euripides,. Iphigenia at Aulis. Editor Child, Harold H., Translator Lumley, Lady Jane, Malone Society.

1997

LJL 's translated tragedy was staged at the University of Sunderland , produced by Stephanie Hodgson-Wright .
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Biography

Birth and Influences

About 1537

Lady Jane Fitzalan (later LJL ) was born, the eldest in a family of three.
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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