Felch, Susan M. “’Noble Gentlewomen famous for their learning’: The London Circle of Anne Vaughan Lock”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 14-19. 15, 14
Mildred Cecil, Lady Burghley
Standard Name: Burghley, Mildred Cecil,,, Lady
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Judith Sargent Murray | She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism... |
| Publishing | Anne Locke | The poem, elegantly transcribed, is contained in a presentation manuscript copy, now in Cambridge University Library, of Giardino cosmografico coltivato in Italian by Bartholo Sylva
(who had come to England from Turin). The poem is... |
| Literary responses | Anne Locke | James Sanford
in Houres of Recreation praised present-day noble Gentlewomen famous for their learning (including three of theCookesisters
and Anne Dering, formerly Locke
) as equalling famous Greek and Roman women. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Bacon | Pandora, a collection of poems by John Southern
(Soowthern on the title-page) was published, containing four moving sonnet-epitaphs for a baby son, written by AB
's niece Anne, Lady Oxford
(Mildred Burghley
's... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Bacon | Though none of AB
's sisters published their work as she did, almost all left evidence of their activity as scholars, letter-writers, translators, and poets. Mildred
(1526-1589), the eldest, who married the statesman William Cecil (later Lord Burghley) |
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