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Author Levin, Carole

Title A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen : Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (919 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Artists, musicians, and entertainers; Mary Cradock Beale (1633-1699); Susanna Horenbout [Hornebolte] Parker Gilman (ca. 1503-ca. 1554); Esther Inglis Kello (1571-1624); Jane the Fool (fl. 1540s-1550s); Susanna Perwich (1636-1661); Levina Benninck Teerlinc (ca. 1510-1576); Thomasina (fl. 1577-1603); 2 Criminals; Elizabeth Abbot (d. 1608); Alice Arden (1516-1551); Elizabeth Barnes (d. 1637); Mary Baynton (b. 1518); Ann Bridgestone (fl. 1650); Mabel Brigge (d. 1538); Margaret Cheyne Bulmer (d. 1537)
Elizabeth Caldwell (d. 1603)Rebecca Chamber (d. 1571); Mary Champion (d. 1647); Alice Clarke (d. 1635); Alice Cowland (fl. 1549); Elizabeth Crofte (fl. 1554); Alice Davis (d. 1629); Margaret Davy [Davie] (d. 1542); Annis Dell (d. 1606); Katherine Stamfort Downes (fl. 1643); Anne Drewry [Drurie, Calfield] (d. 1573); Elizabeth Evans ["Canberry Bess"] (d. 1635); Margaret Ferneseede (d. 1608); Katherine Ferrers Fanshawe (1634-1660); Katherine Francis (d. 1629); Mary Frith ["Moll Cutpurse"] (ca. 1584-1659); Anne Greene (b. 1628, hanged 1650, d. 1659); Anne Gunter (b. 1584); Anne Hamton (fl. 1641)
Jane Hattersley (d. 1609)Petronella Brightred Hayward (fl. 1580s); Joan Helliker (fl. 1603); Frances Howard Devereux Carr, Countess of Essex and Somerset (1592-1632); Agnes Cotell Hungerford (1470-1523); Mary Ryder Lake (1575-1643); Mary Osborne (fl. 1580); Eulalia Glanfield Page (d. 1591); Ellen Pendleton [Flodder] (d. 1616); Judith Phelps (fl. 1594); Ann Lake Cecil Rodney, Lady Ros (1600-1630); Anne Saunders (d. 1573); Martha Scambler (d. 1614); Frances Brydges Throckmorton (b. 1536-d. after 1559); Anne Norton Turner (1576-1615); Margaret Vincent (d. 1616); Anne Wallen (d. 1616)
Anne Waters (d. 1608)Anne Welles (d. 1592); Alice West (fl. 1613); Anne Willis (d. 1637); Alice Tankerfelde Wolff (fl. 1534); Mary Woods (fl. 1613); Katherine Wright (fl. 1586); Anne Calthorp Radcliffe Wyse, Countess of Sussex (d. 1579/82); 3 Entrepreneurs and builders; Margaret Barnes ["Long Meg of Westminster"] (fl. 1540s); Alice Barnham (1523-1604); Margaret Baynham (fl. 1540s); Anne Clifford Sackville Herbert (1590-1676); Katherine Dowe (ca. 1507); Elizabeth Garton Draper (fl. 1580s); Joyce Jefferies (1570-1650); Thomasine Bonaventure Galle Barnaby Percyvale (d. 1512)
Elizabeth Philips Quiney (d. 1632)Elizabeth Barlow Cavendish St. Loe Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury ["Bess of Hardwick"] (b. ca. 1527-1608); Elizabeth Whipp (d. 1645); Elizabeth Gale Wilford (d. 1559); 4 Immigrants, expatriates, exiles, and world travelers; Elizabeth Ames [Añes] (b. 1481); Anne Gresham Bacon (ca. 1549-1594); Jane Bomelius Wennington (d. after 1586); Francesca de Cáceres Grimaldi (fl. 1510); Margaret Harington de Cisneros (fl. 1559); Anna Hooftman Palavicino Cromwell (1565-1626); Eleanor White Dare (ca. 1563); Jane Fromond Dee (1555-1605)
Notes Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria (1538-1612)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Women -- England -- Biography -- Encyclopedias
Women -- England -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- Biography -- Encyclopedias
Women -- England -- History -- 17th century -- Biography -- Encyclopedias
Women
Women -- Renaissance
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bertolet, Anna Riehl
Carney, Jo Eldridge
ISBN 9781315440705
1315440709