Lady Powis
, mother of two future writers (Lucy
and Winifred
, then about ten and seven), joined her husband
in the Tower of London, on a charge of Roman Catholic plotting against...
Family and Intimate relationships
Lady Lucy Herbert
Lady Lucy's mother, Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness and eventually Duchess of Powis
, was born into the highest ranks of Catholic monarchists and through her father (Edward Somerset, second Marquess of Worcester
, soldier, diplomat...
Family and Intimate relationships
Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale
Lady Winifred's mother, Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness and eventually Duchess of Powis
, came from an influential Catholic
royalist family. One of her great-grand-mothers was the Renaissance translator Elizabeth Russell
(one of the famous Cook sisters)...
Occupation
Lady Lucy Herbert
The year after her mother
's death, LLH
was clothed at the convent of the English Augustinian Canonesses
: Nazareth Monastery (called the English Convent) at Bruges, where she took the name Sister Teresa Joseph
.
Durrant, Catherine S. A Link between Flemish Mystics and English Martyrs. Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 1925.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
politics
Elizabeth Cellier
EC
met Lady Powis
, an active and prominent Catholic, who enlisted her in work on behalf of imprisoned co-religionists.
Cellier, Elizabeth. Malice Defeated and The Matchless Rogue. Editor Gardiner, Anne Barbeau, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1988.
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Publishing
Elizabeth Cellier
Lady Powis
, governess to the infant Prince of Wales
, brought the baby to the king
with Elizabeth Cellier
's Foundling Hospital petition in his hand.