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49: 209:, the play mentioned in that title, "features two heroines who hold out for and get 'equall marryage,' having trained the gallants, Courtley and Praesumption, who were intending to train them." Egerton's final manuscript collection, known as the "Loose Papers," is made up of prayers, meditations, and essays, some written in response to the illness and death of her children — only four of whom survived to adulthood — and some to pregnancy and childbirth: 200:
and Frances remained at the besieged family seat in Nottinghamshire until 1645 when she relocated to her husband's home where she was relatively sheltered from the rest of the war. Egerton's earliest manuscript compilation (Bodl. Oxf., MS Rawl. poet. 16; Yale University, Beinecke Library, Osborn MS
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Elizabeth Egerton died delivering her tenth child and was buried at Ashridge, Hertfordshire. Her manuscripts are held at the Nottingham University Library, Portland collection (letters); the Bodleian and Beinecke libraries
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O Lord, I knowe thou mightest have smothered this my Babe in the wombe, but thou art ever mercyfull, and hast at this time brought us both from greate dangers, and me from the greate torture of childbirth.
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Ezell, Margaret J. M., "To Be Your Daughter in Your Pen: The Social Functions of Literature in the Writings of Lady Elizabeth Brackley and Lady Jane Cavendish".
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With Jane Cavendish. From "A Pastorall"; "An answeare to my Lady Alice Edgertons Songe"; "On my Boy Henry"; and "On the death of my Deare Sister." Rprt.
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Alexandra G. Bennett, "'Now let my language speake': The Authorship, Rewriting, and Audience(s) of Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley".
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Stanton, Kamille Stone, "The Domestication of Royalist Themes in the Manuscript Writings of Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley",
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Poems Songs a Pastorall and a Play by the Right Honorable the Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley
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Wynne-Davies, Marion, "Jane and Elizabeth Cavendish"; "Jane Cavendish"; "Elizabeth Cavendish",
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Elizabeth Cavendish was encouraged in her literary interests from a young age by her father,
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Findlay, Alison. "Playing the 'scene self' in Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley's
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Greer, Germaine, et al., eds. "Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley."
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The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley
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Cheyne, Jane, Lady, 1621–1669 and Egerton, Elizabeth Cavendish, 1626–1663.
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Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History
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Kissing the Rod: an anthology of seventeenth-century women's verse
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Kissing the Rod: an anthology of seventeenth-century women's verse
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Egerton , Elizabeth, countess of Bridgewater (1626–1663)
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Elizabeth Egerton

Noble family
John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater
John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater
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Charles Egerton
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William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Egerton family
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Ben Jonson
Thomas Shadwell
John Dryden
John Egerton
Margaret Cavendish
Jane
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The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley
Egerton , Elizabeth, countess of Bridgewater (1626–1663)
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