This month’s update contains the lives of 14 Early Modern women from Anne Herbert, the sister of Queen Katherine Parr, to publisher Jane Hogarth, and including a portrait painter, travellers, merchants, vowesses, a poet, and a murderer.
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New and updated subjects - July 2020
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Cheke [née Hill; other married name Mackwilliam], Lady Mary (c. 1532–1616), gentlewoman of the privy chamber and courtier poet
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Forrat, Margaret (fl 1624, d. 1653), noblewoman and landowner
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Herbert [née Parr], Anne (c. 1515–1552), countess of Pembroke, courtier and sister to Katherine Parr
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Hogarth [née Thornhill], Jane (d. 1789), printseller and businesswoman
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Holsewyther, Margaret (b. c. 1504, d. after 1560), royal miniaturist
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Kyngeston [née Fettyplace], Susan (c. 1490–1540), vowess
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Langley, Katherine (d. 1511), vowess
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Rough, Alison (c. 1480–1535), merchant
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Sleepe, Frances (b. by 1685, d. 1776), fan-maker
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Sleepe [married name Burney], Esther (1725–1762), fan-maker
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Spens [Spence], Isobel (d. 1653), noblewoman
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Stuart [Stewart], Martha [Märta] (1606–1653), noblewoman and landowner
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Wilmot, Katherine (1773–1824), traveller and diarist
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Wilmot [married name Bradford], Martha (1775–1873), traveller, diarist, and editor
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