EJ
continued her education for herself after her marriage, studying, perhaps at Crowlands, morality and history, putting to use her existing knowledge of languages and of poetry.
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sylvia Brown
speculates that this may imply reading...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anne Bradstreet
AB
's published volume, The Tenth Muse, is dominated by her two most ambitious works, long composite poems in pentameter couplets: Quaternions, written before 1642, and An Exact Epitome of the Four Monarchies...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth B. Lester
Its title-page quotes from Akenside
, but the tutelary genius of the novel is Shakespeare
, several of whose plays have left their mark on it. The story opens (recalling two of Mrs Ross
's...
Occupation
Elizabeth Isham
Her needlework included doing Irish stitch, tent stitch, and purse-work, making bone lace and bodices, and knitting stockings, and she often gathered flowers in order to copy them in stitching.
Isham, Elizabeth. “Diary”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham, 5 Apr. 2011.
1636
Isham, Elizabeth. “Booke of Rememberances”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham, edited by Elizabeth Clarke.
26r
It is clear...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Anne Bradstreet
In her Elegy Upon . . . Sidney, In Honour of Du Bartas, and In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory, AB
pays measured and solemn...