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Perdita woman: Elizabeth Jocelyn |
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Biography Elizabeth Jocelin (or Joscelin) was born in 1596 to Richard Brooke and Elizabeth Chaderton of Cheshire. Her grandfather, William Chaderton, was Master of Queen's College, University of Cambridge and a Professor of Divinity there . She was raised and educated in her grandfather's household after the separation of her parents, where her lessons in languages and liberal arts exceeded the normal course of studies for girls. In 1616, she married Taurell Jocelin of Essex, son and heir to Sir Thomas Jocelin. She probably wrote her mother's legacy (British Library Additional MS 4378 and British Library Additional MS 27467 at Crowlands in Oakington, near Cambridge, an estate which Taurell Jocelin held by the 1620s. Jocelin wrote the legacy while she was anticipating the birth of her first child, a labour which she feared she might not survive. Her fears proved prophetic, as she died in childbed nine days after giving birth to a daughter, Theodora. We know that Theodora inherited her father's estate and married the entrepreneur Samuel Fortrey in 1643, and that she bore three sons and four daughters, but we do not know whether she ever read her mother's advice. The source of this biographical information is Sylvia Brown's edition of the legacy. Brown, 1999 Biography by Victoria E. Burke. |
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British Library: Add. MS 27467 British Library: Add. MS 27467 British Library: Add. MS 27467 British Library: Add. MS 4378 Huntington
Library: MS HM 15369 Huntington
Library: MS EL 6871 Huntington
Library: Hastings Literature Box 1, Folder 6 Huntington
Library: Hastings Religious Box 2, Folder 8 |