Lady Jane Lumley
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Standard Name: Lumley, Lady Jane
Birth Name: Jane Fitzalan
Styled: Lady Jane Fitzalan
Married Name: Jane, Baroness Lumley
was a Renaissance translator who distinguished herself by producing the earliest extant English version of a tragedy by
, which is also the earliest play by a woman in English. She also translated orations and wrote dedications of her writing to her
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Texts
Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “Introduction”. Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women, edited by Diane Purkiss, translated by. Lady Jane Lumley, Penguin, 1998, p. i - xlvi.
Euripides,. Iphigenia at Aulis. Editor Child, Harold H., Translator Lumley, Lady Jane, Malone Society, 1909.
Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess et al. “The Tragedie of Iphigeneia”. Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women, edited by Diane Purkiss, translated by. Lady Jane Lumley, Penguin, 1998.