The antiquary William Cole
later guessed that she must have been a Fanatic among the French Prophets from the Cevennes.
Cole, William. Twickenham Town in Middlesex.
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death
Joan Whitrow
She was buried, according to her own instructions in the garden of Mathias Perkins
, her executor,
“People. Joan Whitrow”. The Twickenham Museum.
beside the main road in Twickenham, across from the theatre. Her burial place was magnificently marked, in...
Health
Elizabeth Tollet
ET
was described by antiquary William Cole
(a contemporary of her nephew) as a little, crooked woman. This may have been the result of some congenital condition, or else associated with ageing.
qtd. in
Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University, 2004.
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Reception
Joan Whitrow
The poet Pope
was later intrigued by this epitaph, but neither he nor Horace Walpole's friend William Cole
could find anything out about her, though Cole was sufficiently intrigued to transcribe her entire epitaph for...
Textual Production
Helen Waddell
In 1931, the year of her Prévost work, HW
edited both A Book of Medieval Latin for Schools, a pedagogic anthology undertaken as frankly an experiment through the persistence of the Classical Panel of...
