By this time the family's proscribed Catholic beliefs had scattered them across Europe. Many of the brothers were constantly on the move, crossing the Channel several times. Two brothers, Richard
and Edward
, became Jesuits...
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Gertrude Thimelby
GT
exchanged original poetry with one of her Jesuit brothers-in-law, Edward Thimelby
, who travelled secretly in England and who hoped to translate Donne
into Italian.
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.