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Collected Writings
The first modern edition and translation of the writings of the Neo-Latin poet Elizabeth Jane Weston (c. 1581-1612). Sheds new light on the possibilities of artistic self-representation available to women at the end of the 16th century.
Neo-Latin Women Writers: Elizabeth Jane Weston and Bathsua Reginald (Makin)
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. Bat...
