Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater
Lady Elizabeth Cavendish's birth family was not remarkable for its piety, but she may have been an exception among them. As an unmarried girl she wrote her name in a copy of St Peter's Complaint...
Education
Elizabeth Grymeston
EG
must have been well educated; Retha Warnicke suspects she may have been taught by Jesuits. In adulthood she was well read, being familiar with the Vulgate Bible (the Latin translation ascribed to St Jerome...
Friends, Associates
Anne Lady Southwell
The Southwell family had connections with the court and with London literary society. Anne Southwell's mother-in-law, Alice
(née Cornwallis), who was a cousin of the essayist William Cornwallis
, may have enabled Anne to meet...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Grymeston
Her writing, whether in the form of essays, prayers, or advice, is highly literary and far-reaching in reference. She quotes and paraphrases sources which reach back to Greek and Latin classical texts, Christian writings in...
