Mary Stuart Duchess of Lennox and Richmond

Standard Name: Lennox and Richmond, Mary Stuart,,, Duchess of
Used Form: Ephelia
Used Form: Mary Stuart, Duchess of Richmond
Used Form: Mary Villiers

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Birth Ephelia
Mary Villiers (later Mary Stuart, Duchess of Lennox and Richmond) , who may have later written and published as Ephelia, was born at Wallingford House in London, the eldest of three children, and the only girl.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
death Ephelia
Mary Stuart, Duchess of Lennox and Richmond , who may have been the poet Ephelia , died a Catholic convert, after a long illness.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “’Butterfly’ of the Restoration Court: A Preview of Lady Mary Villiers, the New ’Ephelia’ Candidate”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1996, pp. 25-39.
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Publishing Ephelia
The initial letter H (Hail Mighty Prince!) in the 1679 reprint is rendered by a woodcut ornament or factotum with portraits of two crowned figures, one of each sex, with the royal rose...
Publishing Ephelia
The book was handsomely produced, having a decorated dedication page, and a frontispiece featuring an oval portrait (or fictitious portrait) of Ephelia, with a heraldic badge above the picture and a pedestal bearing her engraved...
Textual Features Ephelia
The original volume's dedication to the most Excellent Princess MARY, Dutchess of Richmond & Lenox
Ephelia,. Female Poems on Several Occasions. James Courtney, 1679.
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(whom it credits with greatness of power, spirit, nobility, generosity, beauty, constancy, and Scorn of Fortune)
Ephelia,. Female Poems on Several Occasions. James Courtney, 1679.
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