Grace and Anthony Mildmay had only one surviving child, born about fourteen or fifteen years into the marriage. They named her Mary
after her Mildmay grandmother. Her mother says surprisingly little about Mary in her...
Literary responses
Grace Lady Mildmay
Mary Fane, Countess of Westmorland
, called these medical papers the treasure of this my worthy mother's mind.
Pollock, Linda. With Faith and Physic: The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman Lady Grace Mildmay 1552-1620. Collins and Brown, 1993.
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Though they did not connect systematically with any wider public, GLM
's knowledge and skills became...