Society of Antiquaries

Hester's father, James Ley , was a lawyer (in time a judge) who sat for many years as Member of Parliament for Westbury (under Queen Elizabeth, James I and Charles I). At the time of...

Having been influential for a couple of centuries after her period of activity, MF re-entered modern literary consciousness with a late-eighteenth-century critical work by Gervais de La Rue , translated into English under the auspices...

During her time in ScotlandAB made archaeological excavations and quite important discoveries of vitrified forts. As a result of this work she was invited to become a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries ...

The story's omniscient narrator offers historical explanations as the tale proceeds (noting, for instance, that women's status, unlike women's education, has not improved since the fourteenth century). ES says she hopes to encourage her readers...

An obituarist had whetted the public appetite by remarking that AR had left a number of manuscripts ready for print. She probably wrote most of the novel Gaston de Blondeville in winter 1802-3. Late...

The work she refers to as her source is Gervais de La Rue 's Dissertation on the Life and Writings of Mary, an Anglo-Norman Poetess of the 13th century, translated into English under the...