Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton

Nicole Garret (Adelphi University)

Ed. by Daniel Cook, University of Dundee
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.04: English Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century, 1625-1688.
Vol. editors: Jennifer Brady (Rhodes College), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Neil Forsyth (Université de Lausanne), Claire Preston (Queen Mary, University of London), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University)

Dates

Born 1626
Died 1683

Places

Active in England

Activities

Primary

Letter-writer/ Diarist
Poet

Resources

Cavendish Egerton's Works

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Elizabeth Egerton, neé Cavendish, Countess of Bridgewater (1626-1683) was a noblewoman, manuscript poet, playwright, and writer of religious meditations. She was the second of three daughters of William Cavendish, first Duke Newcastle upon Tyne (1593-1676), and Elizabeth Howard, neé Basset (1599-1643). Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608) was her great grandmother, and, after her father’s remarriage in 1745, she became stepdaughter to Margaret Cavendish, neé Lucas, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673). Elizabeth was styled Lady Elizabeth Cavendish until her marriage in 1641 to John Egerton, Viscount Brackley (1623-1686), later the second Earl of Bridgewater. Before her husband’s accession to the earldom, she was known as Lady Elizabeth Brackley. Being, in the words of her stepmother Margaret…

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Citation: Garret, Nicole. "Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 March 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14006, accessed 21 November 2024.]