Katherine Brandon Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk

AL grew up partly in the household of the Countess of Kent , which probably meant humanist instruction in rhetoric and in the classics.

She developed fever three days after the birth. Shortly before she died, she was lucid enough to dictate her will. The Duchess of Suffolk took the baby to bring up at her own expense. KP

Her family networks, too, were Protestant. Her parents were close friends and country neighbours of Katherine Brandon Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk (letter-writer, patron of women writers, friend and associate of Katherine Parr ). In 1563...

AL was also a friend of Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk (who shared her religious exile in Geneva before moving on to Lithuania), and of Catherine Killigrew, née Cooke . Her later collaboration with Killigrew...

She interested herself in women's bible-studying groups, in which her associates included Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk , Elizabeth, Lady Tyrwhit , and Anne Askew .

Following King Henry VIII's death, a group of Protestant women including Anne Seymour , Mildred Cecil , and Catherine Brandon (Duchess of Suffolk) rivalled KP as female champions of the new religion and the new...

KP 's friend the Duchess of Suffolk helped circulate the first draft copies of The lamentacion of a sinner, made by the most vertuous Ladie, Quene Catern.

This novel, a third-person narrative, opens arrestingly—It was a cold, and dreary evening, in the month of October 1548—on the French Count d'Almaile's discovery of a female skeleton in her coffin...

While in exile in Geneva, AL had worked on this rendering of modern and revolutionary material. She had only recently returned to London when her work was recorded in the Stationers' Register . Chapter...