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Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater
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Standard Name: Bridgewater, Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton,,, Countess of
Birth Name: Elizabeth Cavendish
Styled: Lady Elizabeth Cavendish
Married Name: Elizabeth Egerton
Titled: Lady Brackley
Titled: Countess of Bridgewater
Indexed Name: Countess of Bridgewater
Self-constructed Name: EB
Nickname: Bess
Bible, and a series of prose meditations and prayers, deeply religious in tone, on topics ranging from Holy Communion to marriage, and including her emotional but faith-driven responses to her many pregnancies, and her children's illnesses and deaths.
, born Lady Elizabeth Cavendish, used to be known as a collaborator with her sister
in poems and plays written in the 1640s. Recent scholarship, while arguing that her part in these juvenile writings was slight, has developed new interest in what she wrote during her married life: an ambitious commentary on every book in the Timeline
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Texts
Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater,. Loose Papers. 1663.
Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater,. Meditations on the Severall Chapters of the Holy Bible. 1663.
Cavendish, Lady Jane, and Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater. Poems Songs and a Pastoral.
Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater,. Subordination and Authorship in Early Modern England: the case of Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton and her "loose papers". Editor Travitsky, Betty, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999.
Travitsky, Betty, and Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater. “Subordination and Authorship: Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton”. Subordination and Authorship: the case of Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton and her &quot:loose papers", Tempe, Ariz., 1999, pp. 1-172.
Cavendish, Lady Jane, and Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater. “The Concealed Fansyes”. PMLA, edited by Nathan Comfort Starr and Nathan Comfort Starr, Vol.
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