Margaret was sent, as was common among the class to which she belonged, to grow up in a noble household, which would be a highly cultured environment. At Ashby-de-la-Zouche in Leicestershire, at the home...
Hoby, Margaret. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady: The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby, 1599-1605, edited by Joanna Moody, Sutton, 1998, p. xv - lvii.