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Publishing | Elizabeth Avery | EA
wrote this work at Newbury in Berkshire, as a childless wife who had lost four children to death and had recently gone through the experience of religious despair followed by assurances of her... |
Publishing | Jane Brereton | In the body of the volume she identifies herself as Melissa. Just two copies are known of a fine-paper version. One, at the Huntington Library
, is wrongly dated 1725 (in Roman numerals). The other... |
Publishing | Ephelia | The book was handsomely produced, having a decorated dedication page, and a frontispiece featuring an oval portrait (or fictitious portrait) of Ephelia, with a heraldic badge above the picture and a pedestal bearing her engraved... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Queen Elizabeth I | QEI
composed her own prayers on both personal and public occasions over the whole course of her career. Imprisoned in the Tower of London between March and May 1554 (early in her sister's reign), she... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Gertrude Thimelby | GT
's youngest sister, Constance Aston (later Fowler)
, was a letter-writer and a great collector of the manuscripts of her circle. Her collection (now in the Huntington Library
) is treated by the Perdita Project |
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