Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Elizabeth Russell
Elizabeth Lady Russell
Standard Name: Russell, Elizabeth,,, Lady
Used Form: Elizabeth, Lady Hoby
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Anne Locke | The title continues: Of the Markes of the Children of God and of their Comforts in Afflictions . . . . Its assertion that the original work, before translation, has been [o]verseene againe and augmented... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | Lady Winifred's mother, Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness and eventually Duchess of Powis
, came from an influential Catholic
royalist family. One of her great-grand-mothers was the Renaissance translator Elizabeth Russell
(one of the famous Cook sisters)... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Bacon | Elizabeth, Lady Russell
's translation of A Way of Reconciliation . . . Touching touching the Trueth [sic] Nature, and Substance of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Sacrament was printed. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Bacon | Elizabeth
(1528-1609), who was only a little younger than Anne, married Sir Thomas Hoby
on 27 June 1558. It has been plausibly suggested that she contributed to his translation of Castiglione
's The Courtyer... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Lucy Herbert | Lady Lucy's mother, Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness and eventually Duchess of Powis
, was born into the highest ranks of Catholic monarchists and through her father (Edward Somerset, second Marquess of Worcester
, soldier, diplomat... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Hoby | Margaret Sidney
married, reluctantly, Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby
(whose mother, Elizabeth
, was a letter-writer of distinction: one of the famously learned Cooke family and thus a sister of translator Anne Bacon
). Hoby, Margaret. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady: The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby, 1599-1605, edited by Joanna Moody, Sutton, 1998, p. xv - lvii. lv |
| Literary responses | Anne Locke | James Sanford
in Houres of Recreation praised present-day noble Gentlewomen famous for their learning (including three of theCookesisters
and Anne Dering, formerly Locke
) as equalling famous Greek and Roman women. Felch, Susan M. “’Noble Gentlewomen famous for their learning’: The London Circle of Anne Vaughan Lock”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, Vol. 16 , No. 2, 1 Mar. 2003, pp. 14-19. 15, 14 |
| Publishing | Anne Locke | The poem, elegantly transcribed, is contained in a presentation manuscript copy, now in Cambridge University Library, of Giardino cosmografico coltivato in Italian by Bartholo Sylva
(who had come to England from Turin). The poem is... |
| Textual Production | Eugenia | Scholar Maureen E. Mulvihill
, on her website, reproduces the elaborate title-page of Edward Reynolds
's 1642 address to Queen Henrietta Maria
by this name, Eugenia's Teares for great Brittaynes Distractions, and suggests a... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Judith Sargent Murray | She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism... |
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Texts
A Way of Reconciliation of a Good and Learned Man. Translator Russell, Elizabeth, Lady, The Right Honorable Elizabeth Russell, Dowager, R. Barker, 1605.