Lady Margaret Cunningham

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Standard Name: Cunningham, Lady Margaret
Birth Name: Margaret Cunningham
Styled: Lady Margaret Cunningham
Married Name: Lady Margaret Hamilton of Crawfordjohn
Married Name: Lady Margaret Maxwell of Calderwood
Used Form: Margaret Cunninghame
LMC is remarkable as an early seventeenth-century Scottish autobiographer and religious writer. Though she left only a few manuscripts, she writes with confidence and panache, both of her marital wrongs and her spiritual experience.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Grace Lady Mildmay
Warnicke says this text is significant as the earliest autobiography written, as opposed to dictated, by an Englishwoman.
Warnicke, Retha M. “Lady Mildmay’s Journal: A Study in Autobiography and Meditation in Reformation England”. Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1989, pp. 55-68.
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Though this is at least arguable, its early date does add to its value.
Even if...
Textual Features Elizabeth Melvill
Baxter reprints in an afterword to this edition a sonnet by Lady Margaret Cunningham , whose comparatively static quality contrasts with the fluid subjectivity of a seven-sonnet sequence by EM , one of her several sequences here.
Ross, Sarah C. E. “Jamie Reid-Baxter (ed.), Poems of Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross”. Journal of the Northern Renaissance.

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Texts

Cunningham, Lady Margaret. A Pairt of the Life of Lady Margaret Cuninghame. Editor Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, J. Ballantyne, 1827.
Cunningham, Lady Margaret. A Parte of the Life of Lady Margaret Cunningham.