Elizabeth jane weston biography of william shakespeare
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Elizabeth Jane Weston: an Englishwoman at the Court of Rudolph II
The sky's inclemency stirs up the angry winds;
the watery clouds are soaking with ceaseless rain.Elizabeth jane weston biography of william shakespeare Elizabeth jane weston biography of william shakespeare in 400 words Biography of william shakespeare pdf Biography of arthur conan doyle Elizabeth jane weston biography of william shakespeare pdf The poet's name was Elizabeth Jane Weston, the English maiden in the court of King and Emperor Rudolph II, and known by many at the time simply as 'Westonia'.
the watery clouds are soaking with ceaseless rain.
Elizabeth jane weston biography of william shakespeare
The turbulent Vltava, swollen with rainy waves,
Bursting, impetuous, breaks through its river-banks...
If you remember 2002 this sounds very familiar, but for a number of reasons, these verses, going back over four hundred years, are unusual.
To start with, the poet who witnessed this Central European catastrophe was English, secondly she was a woman, at a time when education for women was more often than not completely neglected, and thirdly, she was still only in her teens and writing in perfect and beautifully crafted Latin verse.
Elizabeth Jane Weston
To find out more about her story, we start in the British Library in London, where Susan Reynolds