Lady Hester Pulter

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Standard Name: Pulter, Lady Hester
Birth Name: Hester Ley
Pseudonym: The Noble Hadassah
Pseudonym: The Honorable H. P.
LHP was a seventeenth-century poet of great skill and subtlety, whose work (transcribed into a handsome manuscript volume) remained unknown until recently because she published none of it. Her writing includes verse emblems and a prose romance.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Judith Cowper Madan
Pattison died of smallpox in July this year, aged about twenty-one.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Subscribers to his posthumous poems included Pope , Lady Hertford , Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Laurence Eusden , Matthew Concanen , and Anthony Hammond

Timeline

June 1648: Royalists commanded by Sir Charles Lucas...

National or international item

June 1648

Royalists commanded by Sir Charles Lucas were besieged in Colchester by parliamentarian forces under Sir Thomas Fairfax .
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
535-6, 541-2
Sir Thomas Fairfax had recently acquired the title of third Lord Fairfax of Cameron .

Texts

Pulter, Lady Hester. “Introduction”. Poems, Emblems, and The Unfortunate Florinda, edited by Alice Eardley, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014, pp. 1-40.
Pulter, Lady Hester. Lady Hesther Pulter’s Poems. 1646.
Pulter, Lady Hester. Poems, Emblems, and The Unfortunate Florinda. Editor Eardley, Alice, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies , 2014.