The playwright mentions in her works two relations whose families were related to each other by marriage: Lady Yate
of Worcestershire and one of the group of remarkable literary siblings who were children of Gertrude...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ann Lady Fanshawe
They may have chosen to marry outside Oxford because although he was a royalist, Sir Richard did not support the reforms by which William Laud had been making the Church of England higher. Ann's...
Family and Intimate relationships
Gertrude Thimelby
GT
's youngest sister, Constance Aston (later Fowler)
, was a letter-writer and a great collector of the manuscripts of her circle. Her collection (now in the Huntington Library
) is treated by the Perdita Project
Literary responses
Winefrid Thimelby
Arthur Clifford
in the early nineteenth century published WT
's letters more or less as curiosities. Latz
finds them both poetic and metaphysical.
Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1997.
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Recent interest in them has been sparked by the general increase...
Literary responses
Gertrude Thimelby
Since then GT
has been included in anthologies such as Betty Travitsky
's The Paradise of Women, 1989, and Female and Male Voices in Early Modern England, edited by Travitsky and Anne Lake Prescott
Publishing
Frances Boothby
FB
expressed her own view about the fate of her play in a poem which circulated among the highly literate Roman Catholic families of Aston and Gage: it turns up in commonplace-books of the letter-writer...
Residence
Georgiana Fullerton
Until spring 1819, when she was six, the family of Georgiana Leveson-Gover (later GF
) was resident at Tixall Hall in Tixall, Staffordshire, the place of her birth. Her father had rented the Hall...
Textual Production
Gertrude Thimelby
GT
exchanged original poetry with one of her Jesuit brothers-in-law, Edward Thimelby
, who travelled secretly in England and who hoped to translate Donne
into Italian.
Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1997.
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Constance Fowler
's poetry manuscript, which includes many...
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Texts
Fowler, Constance. The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler. Editor Aldrich-Watson, Deborah, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in conjunction with Renaissance English Text Society, 2000.