| Bibliography |
MENTIONED IN:
- Stevenson, in Weissbort/Eysteinsson, Translation
- Theory and Practice 2009, 136-8: for manuscript circulation Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700: Volume 5, Mihoko Suzuki (Author, Editor) |
| Provisional Notes |
She was a prophetess
Translator from Latin
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By four years old Lucy had learned to read and to memorise sermons. She preferred adult conversation and books (including "wittie songs and amorous sonnetts") to music, dancing or sewing (which last she "absolutely hated"). At about seven years old she had eight tutors teaching her different subjects. She learned French from the nurse who took charge of her as soon as she was weaned, and excelled her brothers at Latin, even though they were at school and "my father's chaplaine that was my tutor was a pittifull dull fellow." Her early nineteenth-century editor noted her "great scriptural learning" and "ample knowledge of the leading works of the Jewish, Heathen, and Christian writers on Theology, Ethics, Philosophy, Logic, and other branches of literature." From a fragment on a page which LH tore out of her brief autobiography, it appears that before she knew John Hutchinson, while she was still a mere child, she was in love with somebody else, whose name she could not hear for years without inward emotion. This was probably not the same man as the one in Wiltshire whom she seemed about to wed when John Hutchinson first became interested in her, with whom the marriage arrangements fell through.
add maiden name Apsley? family name first (cf. other records). mentioning husband?
works?
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