Gertrude Thimelby

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GT was a Roman Catholic poet of the mid seventeenth century with a powerful individual voice, dealing with the themes of family love, bereavement, and religious devotion. Her surviving poems number only nineteen.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
  • BirthName: Gertrude Aston
  • Married: Thimelby

Milestones

About 1617

Gertrude Aston (later GT ) was born at Tixall Manor or Hall in Staffordshire. She was one of ten children.
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.

24 July 1668

GT died in St Monica's convent at Louvain, aged forty-seven, after ten years as a widowed nun.
Morris, John, editor. The Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers. Gregg International Publishers, 1970.
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Biography

Birth and Family

About 1617

Gertrude Aston (later GT ) was born at Tixall Manor or Hall in Staffordshire. She was one of ten children.
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.