1st Edition

Anne, Margaret and Jane Seymour Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 6

By Brenda Hosington Copyright 2000
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Despite the fame their work brought them, and despite the importance of their parents in mid-Tudor England, relatively little is known of the lives of Anne, Margaret and Jane Seymour - daughters of Anne Stanhope and the Duke of Somerset. In 1550, aged roughly eighteen, sixteen and nine, these three noblewomen composed a Latin poem of 104 distichs on the death of Marguerite de Navarre, which they... Read more
Contents: Introductory note; Hecatodistichon; Le Tombeau de Marguerite de Valois.

Biography

Brenda Hosington