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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154990503321

Autore

Westonia Elizabetha Johanna <1582-1612., >

Titolo

Neo-Latin women writers : Elizabeth Jane Weston and Bathsua Reginald [Makin] / / selected and introduced by Donald Cheney ; general editors, Betty S. Travitsky and Patrick Cullen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-24819-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 pages)

Collana

Early Modern Englishwoman. Printed writings, 1500-1640, Series 1, Part 2 ; ; ; Volume 7

Altri autori (Persone)

CheneyDonald <1932->

CullenPatrick <1940->

TravitskyBetty <1942->

MakinBathsua <1600-approximately 1675.>

WestoniaElizabetha Johanna <1582-1612.>

Disciplina

871/.0408

Soggetti

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern - England

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern - Women authors

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2000 by Ashgate.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Poëmata / Elizabeth Jane Weston -- Parthenica / Elizabeth Jane Weston -- Musa Virginea. Graeco-Latino-Gallica / Bathsua Reginald [Makin].

Sommario/riassunto

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 facility at Latin verses and the support of Georg Martinius von Baldhoven quickly led her to international fame. For Poemata we reprint here the copy of the 1602 edition owned by the Folger Shakespeare Library and for Parthenica we reprint the copy of the 1608(?) edition owned by the Houghton Library. Bathsua Reginald (Makin) was the daughter of Henry Reginald, a London school-master. She is said to have been fluent in Greek, Latin and French and to have knowledge also of Hebrew and Syriac. Her Musa virginea Græco-Latino-Gallica of 1616 certainly



confirm these claims to have been accurate. She later became tutor to Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Charles I. The work for which she is best known today is An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen published in 1673. The work reproduced here is the 1616 edition of Musa virginea and as an appendix we also reprint an engraved card showing specimens of script.