The playwright mentions in her works two relations whose families were related to each other by marriage: Lady Yate
of Worcestershire and one of the group of remarkable literary siblings who were children of Gertrude...
Family and Intimate relationships
Gertrude Thimelby
Her brother Herbert
was also a transcriber and collector of poetry, chiefly that of his wife, Katherine. His commonplace book is now in the Beinecke Library
at Yale University
.
Sanders, Julie. “The Coterie Writing of the Astons and the Thimelbys”. Women Writing 1550-1750, edited by Jo Wallwork and Paul Salzman, English Program, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, 2001, pp. 47-57.
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Textual Production
Winefrid Thimelby
She wrote to her sister Katherine Aston
, and after Katherine's death continued the correspondence with warmly intimate letters to her brother-in-law Herbert Aston
. Nuns were not officially allowed to maintain non-religious correspondences, but...