Henry Fitzalan twelfth Earl of Arundel

Standard Name: Arundel, Henry Fitzalan,,, twelfth Earl of
Used Form: Lord Arundel

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Dedications Lady Jane Lumley
LJL 's surviving writings are almost all translations. Among them are Latin versions of orations written in Greek by Isocrates . With these are two original dedications written in Latin and addressed to her father .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Education Lady Jane Lumley
Jane's education, still in progress at the date of her early marriage, partook of that window during the English Renaissance when it was fashionable to give upper-class girls a scholarly training. She, her sister Mary...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Jane Lumley
Her father, Henry Fitzalan, twelfth Earl of Arundel , was an ambitious and formidable man. He was a patron of the arts and of scholarship, and made his library the finest in England at the time.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Material Conditions of Writing Lady Jane Lumley
Soon after she became a child bride, LJL , still living in her father 's house, made the earliest extant English translation of a Greek tragedy: Iphigeneia from Euripides .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Author summary Lady Jane Lumley
LJL was a Renaissance translator who distinguished herself by producing the earliest extant English version of a tragedy by Euripides , which is also the earliest play by a woman in English. She also translated...

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