George Hickes

George Hickes believed this work to be by SH . He also noted that a section added to it in 1688 in a form then titled The Sacrifice of a devout Christian was identified by...

George Hickes included in A Second Collection of Controversial LettersA Letter Written by a Gentlewoman of Quality to a Romish Priest: that is, by SH to Henry Turberville on choosing the Anglican over...

The first of these works, dedicated to Caroline, Princess of Wales , is sometimes called the first grammar of Anglo-Saxon; in fact Elstob was preceded by her friend and patron George Hickes , who published...

As an adult pursuing her interest in the highly masculine field of controversial theology, SH repeatedly expressed regret that her education had been inadequate. She felt particularly her lack of skill in the ancient languages...

After 1689 SH became a good friend of George Hickes , antiquarian, sometime Dean of Worcester, and patron of Elizabeth Elstob . Hickes, a member of a generation younger than Hopton, was a Non-juror (one...

The same year that her brother died, the death of her fellow-scholar George Hickes removed yet one more anchor from EE .

Most important among EE 's scholarly circle were George Hickes and her brother . The group of scholars known as the Oxford Saxonists, to their credit, seems to have welcomed her on terms of equality...

Hickes 's selection of her work was of course a testimonial of his confidence in its quality.

George Hickes had strongly supported the forthcoming edition. He thought Elstob's work the most correct I ever saw or read,and that her edition will be of great advantage to the Church of England against...

Material that she kept relating to the school included legal views of the canonical jurist Sir Edward Coke on charitable institutions, a sermon by George Hickes on endowing a school for poor girls, and information...

She was a fine artist, drawing letters from manuscripts for typecasting and printing, creating her own illuminated letters, and producing a portrait of George Hickes from which a print was taken. The print was judged...

Her timing may have had to do with the death of the former James II on 3 September 1701, though she had apparently been praying for William III during his reign so far. During the...

Hopton may have begun adapting Austin/Birchley purely for her own use. Her annotated copy of his text (now at Trinity College , Cambridge; excerpts reproduced in the modern facsimile edition of her works) does...

Her letter, addressed to her prebendary uncle, Charles Elstob , mentions her deference to his judgement, and the favour she has received from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities . Female modesty, she says, prevents her...

A Collection of Meditations and Devotions, now believed to be all the work of SH , was published by Nathaniel Spinckes , who had the text from George Hickes after Hopton's death.