Elizabeth Richardson

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Standard Name: Richardson, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Beaumont
Married Name: Elizabeth Ashburnham
Titled: Elizabeth, Lady Ashburnham
Married Name: Elizabeth Richardson
Titled: Elizabeth Richardson, Baroness of Cramond
Elizabeth Richardson, Lady Cramond (formerly Ashburnham), was a seventeenth-century devotional writer (of prayers and meditations, maxims, and a treatise on life and death, as well as letters) over a period of almost forty years. She had a strong commitment to the religious education of her daughters, and for them, and for other readers too, she left a published mother's legacy made up of revisions of earlier writings.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Katherine Philips
Whatever was the exact nature and function of KP 's Society of Friendship , it was a group which she built for herself, to overcome the solitude of Wales and bind herself to like-minded friends...
Intertextuality and Influence Dorothy Leigh
DL 's book probably influenced the compilation and publication of those by Elizabeth Joscelin and Elizabeth Richardson .
Leigh, Dorothy et al. Women’s Writing in Stuart England. Editor Brown, Sylvia, Sutton, 1999.
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Editor Sylvia Brown sees her as in some sense a foremother of the women preachers who...
Reception Elizabeth Joscelin
EJ has, curiously, attracted less critical attention than Dorothy Leigh (whom Sylvia Brown believes to have been an influence on her writing)
Leigh, Dorothy et al. Women’s Writing in Stuart England. Editor Brown, Sylvia, Sutton, 1999.
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or Elizabeth Richardson , but Teresa Feroli published an article on her...
Textual Features Elizabeth Grymeston
EG 's prefatory epistle offers advice on the conduct of his life to her son Bernye, and further good counsel is prominent. This book (which also includes poems and prayers) is both the earliest extant...

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Texts

Richardson, Elizabeth. A Ladies Legacie to her Daughters. Thomas Harper, 1645.
Richardson, Elizabeth et al. “A Ladies Legacie to Her Daughters”. Women’s Writing in Stuart England, edited by Sylvia Brown, Sutton, 1999, pp. 157-8.
Joscelin, Elizabeth et al. “Elizabeth Joscelin’s Manuscript Mother’s Legacy”. Women’s Writing in Stuart England, edited by Sylvia Brown, Sutton, 1999, pp. 106-39.
Leigh, Dorothy et al. “The Mothers Blessing”. Women’s Writing in Stuart England, edited by Sylvia Brown, Sutton, 1999, pp. 15-87.
Leigh, Dorothy et al. Women’s Writing in Stuart England. Editor Brown, Sylvia, Sutton, 1999.