Elizabeth Bury
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Standard Name: Bury, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Lawrence
Married Name: Elizabeth Lloyd
Married Name: Elizabeth Bury
was a seventeenth-century woman whose religious background (
, which after the Restoration became
) encouraged her to acquire a scholarly education. Her spiritual life embraced the practice of diary- and letter-writing as well as extemporary prayer, and after her death her widower published a volume of memoirs which mediated and preserved all that survives of her work in these genres.
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