Elizabeth Isham

EI , living unmarried in a gentry family in the earlier seventeenth century, left two unique pieces of life-writing: a year-by-year summary of major events in her life, and a connected narrative based on the same material, in which what happens is envisaged from the point of view of religious and spiritual life, with prayers interspersed. She also left manuscripts detailing her religious devotions and her practising of medicine.