Lady Lucy's mother, Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness and eventually Duchess of Powis
, was born into the highest ranks of Catholic monarchists and through her father (Edward Somerset, second Marquess of Worcester
, soldier, diplomat...
Family and Intimate relationships
Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale
Lady Winifred's mother, Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness and eventually Duchess of Powis
, came from an influential Catholic
royalist family. One of her great-grand-mothers was the Renaissance translator Elizabeth Russell
(one of the famous Cook sisters)...
Family and Intimate relationships
Lady Lucy Herbert
Lady Powis
, mother of two future writers (Lucy
and Winifred
, then about ten and seven), joined her husband
in the Tower of London, on a charge of Roman Catholic plotting against...
Occupation
Lady Lucy Herbert
The year after her mother
's death, LLH
was clothed at the convent of the English Augustinian Canonesses
: Nazareth Monastery (called the English Convent) at Bruges, where she took the name Sister Teresa Joseph
.
Durrant, Catherine S. A Link between Flemish Mystics and English Martyrs. Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 1925.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
politics
Elizabeth Cellier
EC
met Lady Powis
, an active and prominent Catholic, who enlisted her in work on behalf of imprisoned co-religionists.
Cellier, Elizabeth. Malice Defeated and The Matchless Rogue. Editor Gardiner, Anne Barbeau, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1988.
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Publishing
Elizabeth Cellier
Lady Powis
, governess to the infant Prince of Wales
, brought the baby to the king
with Elizabeth Cellier
's Foundling Hospital petition in his hand.