Lady Jane Cavendish

01 January 1621 - 08 October 1669

Standard Name: Cavendish, Lady Jane

Birth Name: Jane Cavendish

Self-constructed Name: Cavendysshe

Self-constructed Name: JC

Styled: Lady Jane Cavendish

Married Name: Jane Cheyne

LJC wrote, in the middle years of the seventeenth century, nearly ninety poems (including occasional and political pieces, compliment, religious pieces and a country-house poem) and the better part of two plays: a pastoral or mock-pastoral drama and a comedy. Her sister Lady Elizabeth had some part, but a lesser one, in this output. Her writing was not published, but was apparently well known in manuscript form in her extended and discriminating social circle.

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Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
death	Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater	Her death left him broken-hearted. He claimed in an epitaph written for himself that though he lived on for many years he never recovered. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under John Egerton Travitsky, Betty, and Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater. “Subordination and Authorship: Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton”. Subordination and Authorship: the case of Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton and her &quot:loose papers", Tempe, Ariz., 1999, pp. 1-172. 79n132, 86-7 According to Elizabeth's sister Jane ...
Family and Intimate relationships	Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater	Elizabeth's sister Jane , the leading writer (poet and playwright) of the group in their adolescent years, married Charles Cheyne in 1655 (not 1654 as generally said) and died in 1669. Their other sister, Frances
Family and Intimate relationships	Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater	The only surviving daughter of ECECB , Elizabeth (later Elizabeth Sidney, Countess of Leicester ), followed in the footsteps of her mother, and of her aunt and godmother Lady Jane Cavendish , in leaving a...
Family and Intimate relationships	Margaret Cavendish	Two of MC 's stepdaughters, Lady Jane (later, by marriage, Cheyne) and Lady Elizabeth (by now Countess of Bridgewater), produced remarkable writings: Jane chiefly as a poet, Elizabeth as a devotional writer whose prayers...
Author summary	Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater	ECECB , born Lady Elizabeth Cavendish, used to be known as a collaborator with her sister Lady Jane in poems and plays written in the 1640s. Recent scholarship, while arguing that her part in these...
Textual Features	Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater	These prose writings, predominantly religious in tone, are like Jane Cavendish 's writings almost all connected with family. Here, however, the family is not a network of individuals wielding power in the social sphere, but...
Textual Production	Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater	During the 1640s, when she was already married but still living with her birth family, the then Lady Elizabeth Brackley involved herself to some extent in collaboration with her sister Lady Jane Cavendish in poetic...
Textual Production	Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater	The Portland Collection at the University of Nottingham contains a few letters from Jane and from Elizabeth to their brother Lord Mansfield in April and May 1656. Travitsky, Betty, and Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater. “Subordination and Authorship: Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton”. Subordination and Authorship: the case of Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton and her &quot:loose papers", Tempe, Ariz., 1999, pp. 1-172. 46n94

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Texts

Starr, Nathan Comfort et al. “The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley”. PMLA, Vol.

, No. 3, pp. 802-38.

Cavendish, Lady Jane, and Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater. Poems Songs and a Pastoral.

Cavendish, Lady Jane, and Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater. “The Concealed Fansyes”. PMLA, edited by Nathan Comfort Starr and Nathan Comfort Starr, Vol.

, No. 3, pp. 802-38.