Elizabeth Delaval

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Standard Name: Delaval, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Livingston
Styled: Lady Elizabeth Livingston
Nickname: Lady Betty
Married Name: Elizabeth Delaval
Married Name: Elizabeth Hatcher
ED is remembered for her manuscript book about her own early life, drafted in 1663-72, during her teens and early twenties (sometimes called either a diary or a commonplace-book). Its obvious motive was religious self-examination, and meditations and prayers alternate with narrative and commentary on her courtships and her family relationships. The whole is flavoured with fictional romance.

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Greene, Douglas G., and Elizabeth Delaval. “Introduction”. The Meditations of Lady Elizabeth Delaval: Written Between 1662 and 1671, edited by Douglas G. Greene and Douglas G. Greene, Northumberland Press, 1978, pp. 1-25.
Delaval, Elizabeth. The Meditations of Lady Elizabeth Delaval: Written Between 1662 and 1671. Editor Greene, Douglas G., Northumberland Press, 1978.