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Margaret Hoby


Born
Linton, East Riding, The United Kingdom
Died
September 04, 1633

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Diaries, History


Lady Margaret Hoby's diary is the first written by a woman in the English language. It is a religious as well as a practical record. Though her interest in writing was not literary, Margaret Hoby was a skilful user of words.

She was the only daughter of a wealthy landowner. She married three times, first to Walter Devereux, brother of Robert, Earl of Essex (favourite of Elizabeth I), then to Thomas Sidney, brother of the poet, Sir Philip Sidney, and finally to Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby. ...more

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