John Loftis

Standard Name: Loftis, John

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Birth Anne Halkett
Many sources before John Loftis date her birth to 1622, but this almost certainly derives from failing to translate Old Style usage.
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Halkett
Editor John Loftis believes that Anne Murray (later AH ) actually married Col. Joseph Bampfield , most probably in the Netherlands.
Bampfield, Joseph. Colonel Joseph Bampfield’s Apology. Loftis, John and Paul H. HardacreEditors , Bucknell University Press, 1993.
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Literary responses Anne Halkett
This work is the basis of AH 's reputation. The publication of 1875 provoked some biographical and critical comment, but less than might have been expected.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Preface, Introduction, Select Bibliography”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, p. v - xxi.
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Editor John Loftis praised AH 's fluent prose...
Literary responses Anne Halkett
Editor John Loftis finds AH 's to be one of the best and most sensitively written of seventeenth-century autobiographies in English.
Bampfield, Joseph. Colonel Joseph Bampfield’s Apology. Loftis, John and Paul H. HardacreEditors , Bucknell University Press, 1993.
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Recent interest in her is reflected in several books and articles, among them...
Publishing Ann, Lady Fanshawe
This edition included valuable biographical material, but was surpassed by that of John Loftis for Oxford University Press , 1979, which for the first time accurately reproduces the text of the British Library manuscript. It...

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