Alice Sutcliffe

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AS was an early seventeenth-century religious writer in prose (meditations, a more private form of sermons) and poetry who, unusually for her rank and gender, allowed her work to be printed bearing her own name (and her husband's).

Milestones

30 January 1633

AS 's Meditations of Man's Mortality, or, A Way to True Blessednesse was entered in the Stationers' Register. Its first edition, of which no copy survives, may have appeared that year or the next.
“Women Writers Online”. Women Writers Project.
Introduction

1634

Meditations of Man's Mortality, or, A Way to True Blessednesse by Mrs. Alice Sutcliffe wife of John Sutcliffe Esquire, Groome of his Majesties most Honourable Privie Chamber was published by Henry Seyle of London in a second, enlarged edition with this date on its title-page.
Sutcliffe, Alice. Meditations of Man’s Mortality. Henry Seyle.
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Biography

Birth and Background

Since she was married by 1624 and was said to be young at the time her book was printed, it is probable that Alice Woodhouse (later AS ) was born during the first decade of the seventeenth century.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Hughey, Ruth. “Forgotten Verses by Ben Jonson, George Wither, and Others to Alice Sutcliffe”. Review of English Studies, Vol.
10
, No. 38, pp. 156-64.
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