Mary Ellen Lamb

Standard Name: Lamb, Mary Ellen

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Literary responses Anne Bacon
Mary Ellen Lamb notes that AB 's editor for Fouretene Sermons, while praising her as an exceptional woman, apparently felt no sense of incongruity in contrasting her with the generality of learned women, who...
Literary responses Anne Halkett
This work is the basis of AH 's reputation. The publication of 1875 provoked some biographical and critical comment, but less than might have been expected.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Preface, Introduction, Select Bibliography”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, p. v - xxi.
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Editor John Loftis praised AH 's fluent prose...
Publishing Lady Mary Wroth
More recently, in 2011, Mary Ellen Lamb produced a scholarly abridged edition.
Textual Production Anne Bacon
An English version already printed in 1562 (the year of the original) had failed to give satisfaction, being hasty and inaccurate.
Lamb, Mary Ellen. “The Cooke Sisters: Attitudes toward Learned Women in the Renaissance”. Silent But For the Word, edited by Margaret P. Hannay, Kent State University Press, 1985, pp. 107-25.
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Parker (a friend of AB 's husband), and her brother-in-law William Cecil (later Lord Burghley)
Textual Production Anne Bacon
Searches have turned up numbers of AB 's papers, surviving in the British Library and among her son Anthony's papers at Lambeth Palace in London.
Martin, Julian. Conversations about Anne Bacon with Isobel Grundy. 1992.
AB 's writings are available in facsimile in the...

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Texts

Akkerman, Nadine N. W. “A Triptych of Dorothy Percy Sidney (1598-1659), Countess of Leicester, Lucy Percy Hay (1599-1660), Countess of Carlisle, and Dorothy Sidney Spencer (1617-1684), Countess of Sunderland”. The Ashgate Research Companion to the Sidneys, 1500-1700 Volume 1: Lives, edited by Margaret P. Hannay et al., Ashgate, 2015.
Lamb, Mary Ellen. “The Cooke Sisters: Attitudes toward Learned Women in the Renaissance”. Silent But For the Word, edited by Margaret P. Hannay, Kent State University Press, 1985, pp. 107-25.