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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Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, 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.
Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke. “The Tragedie of Iphigeneia”. Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women, edited by Diane Purkiss, translated by. Lady Jane Lumley, Penguin, 1998.