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However, Millar himself admits that not a single letter or signed drawing survives with
Willbraham's name on it connecting her with any project. His argument is based around the annotations in her copy of Andrea Palladio and similarities he claims to have found in buildings built at the time. His
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During the seventeenth century it was impossible for a woman to pursue a profession and Millar stated that Lady
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Millar has gone as far as suggesting as many as 400 buildings as possible works of
Elizabeth Wilbraham. They all generally show similarities with Italian or Dutch architecture. Wilbraham owned a 1663 edition of
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Elizabeth Wilbraham is the first known woman architect. Millar says this follows more than 50 years of research into the subject. In 2007 the owners of the stately home,
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proposed that John Fitch may have been the original architect, and later the same year, Millar, noting Colvin's paper, proposed Lady
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