Some of her manuscript letters are in the British Library
as MS Additional 36452.
Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1997.
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Sanders, Julie. “The Coterie Writing of the Astons and the Thimelbys”. Women Writing 1550-1750, edited by Jo Wallwork and Paul Salzman, English Program, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, 2001, pp. 47-57.
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Bowden, Caroline, editor. English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800. Pickering and Chatto, 2012, 3 vols.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Lucy Toulmin Smith
Smith provides a thorough summary of the state of librarianship as a profession at the time. She notes that even for men, librarianship is a fledgling profession, so that women seeking to join it may...
Wealth and Poverty
Lady Jane Lumley
Since LJL
was her father's last surviving heir, his collections (including his library and her manuscripts) passed at his death to her widower. In 1609, they passed into the royal collection, and in due course...
Wealth and Poverty
Adelaide O'Keeffe
On her father
's death AOK
applied to the Royal Literary Fund
, which granted her £25. For the Fund she estimated her lifetime literary earnings for herself as not more than £200.
This estimate...
Wealth and Poverty
Marjorie Bowen
When she got back to her mother's household in England, Margaret was distressed at the mismanagement of money and frequent lack of food. She was by then sixteen, and keenly felt that she should be...