In her religious poetry she was influenced, like other women of her circle, by St Augustine
, Marsilio Ficino
, Saint Bonaventure
, and Greek patristics.
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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Her secular and religious poems share certain attitudes...