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Lucy Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

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Lucy Hastings' poetry remained unpublished during her lifetime, a fate common among women writers of her historical period. However, in the contemporary era's renewed interest in rediscovering women writers from past centuries, her work has received increased critical attention.
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As Countess of Huntingdon, Lucy Hastings became involved in a bitter property dispute with her mother in the years 1627–33; Eleanor Davies denounced her daughter as a "
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and himself a poet; her mother was notorious as the "mad prophetess" Dame Eleanor Davies (1590–1652), sister of the executed
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Though her husband, then the 6th Earl of Huntingdon, was outwardly neutral during the
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Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie.
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Lucy Hastings and her husband had ten children including Lady
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Lucy Hastings

Katherine, Countess of Chesterfield
Anthony van Dyck
Elizabeth
Theophilus Hastings
Lady Eleanor
Sir John Davies
Englefield, Berkshire
James I
Charles I
Lord Castlehaven
Ferdinando Hastings
Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon
Bathsua Makin
French
Spanish
Latin
Greek
Hebrew
Peter du Moulin
Jezebel
English Civil War
Ashby de la Zouch Castle
Donington Park
Elizabeth Langham
Richard Brome
John Dryden
Andrew Marvell
Robert Herrick

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