George Hickes

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...

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...

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...

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...

In 1708, the year of her Scudéry translation, George Hickes had some of EE 's work printed in a scholarly text known as Conspectus brevis by William Wotton , which condensed Hickes's own Grammatica Anglo-Saxonica...

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

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...

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...

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...

SH 's revised or reformed version of John Austin 's popular Roman CatholicDevotions in the Ancient Way of Offices, 1668, was published through George Hickes . Austin concealed himself under the name of William Birchley.

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.

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...

She appointed both an executor, William Brome , and a literary executor, Richard Lloyd of Yarpole, a Nonjuror who, however, later conformed and took the oath of allegiance to the new monarchs. Lloyd saw to...