Lady Elizabeth Hastings

Standard Name: Hastings, Lady Elizabeth
Used Form: Lady Betty Hastings

Connections

Connections Sort ascending Author name Excerpt
Wealth and Poverty Mary Astell
Astell was not above accepting financial help from her upper-class circle. Lady Betty Hastings regularly paid her sums of money in her later years, and Lady Catherine Jones , Lady Coventry , and Elizabeth Hutcheson
Publishing Elizabeth Elstob
Its full title is An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory , Anciently used in the English-Saxon Church. Giving an Account of the Conversion of the English from Paganism to Christianity. It...
Occupation Mary Astell
She did this on a subscription of £500, begun by Lady Betty Hastings on 5 April with five guineas. The school was conducted in rooms borrowed from Chelsea Royal Hospital , and most pupils were...
Friends, Associates Mary Astell
Her closest friends were the unmarried Lady Betty Hastings and Lady Catherine Jones , and the widow Lady Coventry .
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press.
243
Lady Betty was a wealthy woman celebrated for her piety, intellectual accomplishments, and benefactions...
death Mary Astell
MA died at Chelsea near London, in the house of her friend Lady Betty Hastings , of the effects of breast cancer, reported as a dropsy or swelling tympany.
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press.
323, 263

Timeline

No timeline events available.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.