Lady Hester Pulter
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was a seventeenth-century poet of great skill and subtlety, whose work (transcribed into a handsome manuscript volume) remained unknown until recently because she published none of it. Her writing includes verse emblems and a prose romance.
- BirthName: Hester Ley
- Married: Pulter
- Pseudonyms: The Noble Hadassah; The Honorable H. P.Hadassah was a name or title of the biblical Queen Esther, of whose name Hester was the anglicized form. ODNB reads this name as Hadassas.
- Styled: LadyShe had been Mrs Hester Pulter for about three years before her father was made an earl, and she therefore acquired the courtesy title of Lady.