Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny

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Standard Name: Abergavenny, Frances Neville,,, Baroness
Birth Name: Frances Manners
Married Name: Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny
Titled: Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny
FNBA both collected and composed devotional writings during the sixteenth century, which reached print after her death. Thomas Bentley , including a generous selection in his Monument of Matrones, 1582, presents them as concerned exclusively with private, domestic manners; recent scholarship suggests that Abergavenny's poems also respond to political-religious controversy, and that Bentley was not the only anthologist to make use of them.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Bacon
It probably dated, though, from early in the reign of Elizabeth I. Gemma Allen suggests that its author saw it as a companion piece to AB 's Defence of the Church of England.
Allen, Gemma. The Cooke Sisters. Manchester University Press, 2013.
59, 61
Textual Features Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit
She concludes her note: To you my dere and faythful frende / my chefest juel I doo comend. She then signs off: your pooer and faythful frend in the lord, elyzabeth trywhyt [sic].
Tyrwhit, Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady. Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers. Editor Felch, Susan M., Ashgate, 2008.
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Frances Neville, Lady Abergavenny

Timeline

1582: Thomas Bentley edited The Monument of Matrones,...

Women writers item

1582

Thomas Bentley edited The Monument of Matrones, an important anthology containing writings by women, mostly religious.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Horton, Louise. “’Restore Me That Am Lost’: Recovering the Forgotten History of Lady Abergavenny’s Prayers”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 1, Feb. 2019, pp. 3-14.
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Texts

Abergavenny, Frances Neville, Baroness. “The Praiers made by the right Honourable Ladie Frances Aburgavennie”. The Monument of Matrones, edited by Thomas Bentley, Printed by H. Denham, 1582, pp. 139-13.