According to her own statement she spent seven years (up to the age of twenty-four) as a servant to an employer in the nobility. Scholar John Considine
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography identifies...
Literary responses
Hannah Wolley
Historian Diane Purkiss
observes that this and HW
's later books open up privileged knowledge to unprivileged readers.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial.
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Literary responses
Mary Renault
The book came out five years after the Sexual Offences Act in Britain decriminalised many homosexual practices there, and three years after the Stonewall Inn Riots in New York marked the start of Gay Liberation...
names
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
There is no writer whose names are more problematic. For centuries she was traditionally known as the Countess of Pembroke (perhaps because this full form appears in the title of her brother's Arcadia) instead...
Anthologization
Lady Jane Lumley
The next year, a modern scholarly edition of LJL
's work appeared, as The Tragedie of Iphigeneia, in Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women, edited by Diane Purkiss
together with plays by the Countess of Pembroke
Literary responses
Lady Jane Lumley
Scholar Marion Wynne-Davies
has pointed out that what have been called errors in translation (omissions, transpositions) are deliberate changes made for literary or intellectual effect. Editor Purkiss
provides a detailed analysis in her introduction.
Wynne-Davies, Marion. “Families at War: Womenapos;s Dramatic Writing and Political Conflict”. Disrupting the Discourses: Women Writers 1500-1700 Conference, South Bank University, London.
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “Introduction”. Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women, edited by Diane Purkiss, translated by. Lady Jane Lumley, Penguin, p. i - xlvi.
Timeline
27 March 1625: James I (James VI of Scotland) died, and...
National or international item
27 March 1625
James I
(James VI of Scotland) died, and his son Charles I
assumed the throne.
24 January 1642: The earliest dated of the weekly newsbooks...
Writing climate item
24 January 1642
The earliest dated of the weekly newsbooks listed in the English Short Title Catalogue is the issue for the twentyfourth of January to the last, 1641 [sic], of A Perfect Diurnall of the Passages in...
Texts
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “Introduction”. Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women, edited by Diane Purkiss, translated by. Lady Jane Lumley, Penguin, 1998, p. i - xlvi.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, et al. “The Tragedie of Iphigeneia”. Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women, edited by Diane Purkiss, translated by. Lady Jane Lumley, Penguin, 1998.
Purkiss, Diane. The Witch in History: early modern and twentieth-century representations. Routledge, 1996.