1st Edition
Neo-Latin Women Writers: Elizabeth Jane Weston and Bathsua Reginald (Makin) Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 7
By Donald Cheney
Copyright 2000
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume contains the work of the only two Renaissance Englishwomen known to have published collections (as opposed to compilations) of their Latin poetry. Elizabeth Jane Weston lived in Prague as a child, her stepfather being alchemist to Rudolph II. Her stepfather's disgrace, imprisonment and death in 1597 left her to try and support her destitute family household with her writing. Her... Read more
Contents: Introductory note; Elizabeth Jane Weston, Poëmata; Elizabeth Jane Weston, Parthenica; Bathsua Reginald (Makin), Musa Virginea Graeco-Latino-Gallica; Appendix: Ad Annam serenissimam...Reginam.
Biography
Donald Cheney
