Lady Elizabeth Hastings

MA died at Chelsea near London, in the house of her friend Lady Betty Hastings , of the effects of breast cancer, reported as a dropsy or swelling tympany.

Her closest friends were the unmarried Lady Betty Hastings and Lady Catherine Jones , and the widow Lady Coventry . Lady Betty was a wealthy woman celebrated for her piety, intellectual accomplishments, and benefactions...

She did this on a subscription of £500, begun by Lady Betty Hastings on 5 April with five guineas. The school was conducted in rooms borrowed from Chelsea Royal Hospital , and most pupils were...

Its full title is An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory , Anciently used in the English-Saxon Church. Giving an Account of the Conversion of the English from Paganism to Christianity. It...

Astell was not above accepting financial help from her upper-class circle. Lady Betty Hastings regularly paid her sums of money in her later years, and Lady Catherine Jones , Lady Coventry , and Elizabeth Hutcheson