Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit

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Elizabeth, Lady Tyrwhit , a product of the Lutheran Protestant movement which inspired the Court ladies of her (sixteenth-century) generation, was the author or compiler of a private book of prayers, with hymns and psalms and biblical paraphrases.

Milestones

Probably by 1510

Elizabeth Oxenbridge (later Lady Tyrwhit) was born at a manor called Brede Place (formerly Forde Place), at the village of Brede in East Sussex, into a family of five children (as well as an elder half-brother).
Brede Place is associated in literary history with the brilliant, short-lived
Davis, Linda H. Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Crane. Houghton Mifflin.
295, 302, 325
US novelist Stephen Crane , who moved there in 1898 and was visited there by writers including Joseph Conrad , H. G. Wells , and Henry James . It was Crane's last home (he died in 1900).
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
3 December 2015
Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit,. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers, edited by Susan M. Felch, Ashgate, pp. 1-51.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1574

Elizabeth Tyrwhit 's devotional collection Morning and Evening Praiers, with divers Psalms, Himnes and Meditations was printed in miniature size.
Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit,. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers, edited by Susan M. Felch, Ashgate, pp. 1-51.
16-17, 74

Before 28 April 1578

Elizabeth Tyrwhit died at her house in St John's Lane, Clerkenwell; this was the day on which her will, made the previous year, was proved.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Influences

Probably by 1510

Elizabeth Oxenbridge (later Lady Tyrwhit) was born at a manor called Brede Place (formerly Forde Place), at the village of Brede in East Sussex, into a family of five children (as well as an elder half-brother).
Brede Place is associated in literary history with the brilliant, short-lived
Davis, Linda H. Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Crane. Houghton Mifflin.
295, 302, 325
US novelist Stephen Crane , who moved there in 1898 and was visited there by writers including Joseph Conrad , H. G. Wells , and Henry James . It was Crane's last home (he died in 1900).
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
3 December 2015
Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit,. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers, edited by Susan M. Felch, Ashgate, pp. 1-51.
1-2
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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