Elizabeth Lincoln
's son and heir, the Earl of Lincoln
, sued his mother in Chancery
as guardian of his younger brothers.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
7: 696
Family and Intimate relationships
Anne Bradstreet
AB
's father, Thomas Dudley
, wrote poetry himself and encouraged his daughter both to study and to write. In 1619 he became steward to the Earl of Lincoln
(eldest son of the author Elizabeth Countess of Lincoln
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Clinton Countess of Lincoln
Theophilus Clinton, now Earl of Lincoln
(Elizabeth Lincoln
's third, but first surviving, son), married Bridget Fiennes
; this marriage turned Lady Lincoln's mind to writing on breast-feeding.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
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politics
Anne Bradstreet
Lord Lincoln
and other associates of AB
's father
were arrested.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
119
Residence
Anne Bradstreet
AB
moved from Northamptonshire to Sempringham in Lincolnshire with her family when her father
became Lord Lincoln
's steward.
Bradstreet, Anne. “The Introduction”. The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet, edited by Joseph R., Jr McElrath and Allan P. Robb, Twayne, 1981, p. xi - xlii.