Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross (1578–1640)
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- Nombre canónico
- Lady Culross, Elizabeth Melville,
- Otros nombres
- Melvill, Elizabeth
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1578
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1640
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Scotland
UK - Lugar de nacimiento
- Halhill, Collessie, Fife, Scotland
- Lugares de residencia
- Culross, Fife, Scotland, UK
- Ocupaciones
- poet
- Biografía breve
- Elizabeth Melville was a daughter of the statesman Sir James Melville of Halhill, Fifeshire, Scotland, and his wife Christian Boswell, who gave her a good education. In about 1596, she married John Colville of Wester-Cumbrae, Commendator of Culross, with whom she had at least seven children. Lady Culross was a Calvinist renowned for her religious piety. Alexander Hume, who thought highly of her talents, dedicated to Lady Culross his Hymns and Sacred Songs (1599). She herself was the author of a long epic poem entitled Ane Godlie Dreame, Compylit in Scottish Meter (1603), a bestseller, making her the earliest known Scottish woman writer to see her work appear in print. The book was reprinted almost a dozen times prior to 1737. Modern interest in her work was sparked when Germaine Greer included her work in an anthology of 17th-century women's verse.
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