Esther Inglis, 1570-1624

Franco-Scottish Creative Woman

AvGeorgianna Ziegler

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Scottish Women Making History

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Esther Inglis was a calligrapher, artist, embroiderer, translator and poet, and the first woman in Scotland or England to include a self-portrait with her works. She developed a career making gift manuscripts, in partnership with her husband Bartilmo Kello – intelligencer and clergyman – that brought her into the political realm. She is important to Scottish religious and literary history as part of the network of theologians and humanists, including Andrew Melville, John Johnston and Robert Rollock.The careers of Esther Inglis and her husband exemplify those of Scots who travelled to England with King James VI and I, returning again when their personal lives became untenable in the south. Her life as professional woman and mother to nine children, as set out in this book, sheds new light on this important transitional Jacobean period of British history. The book also contextualises Inglis and her French refugee family within the Scottish, English and European courts and politics of the time.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-12-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Scottish Women Making History
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399530828

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Dr. Georgianna Ziegler is Louis B. Thalheimer Associate Librarian Emerita of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. She has published a number of articles on other women of the period and on women's book ownership. She has given talks and published articles on Esther Inglis, including the report of a newly-discovered manuscript, and biographies of Inglis in the New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women and the Routledge Encyclopaedia of the Early Modern World. At press is an article on the self-portraits of Esther Inglis.

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A sparkling biography of the uniquely talented Esther Inglis, it unites all her exquisite works with Esther’s own history of migration, motherhood and above all her calligraphic, embroidery, poetic and painterly skills. Richly illustrated, we get a full sense of her ‘most rare and curious writes and workes’.

Innehållsförteckning

Notes on UsageList of FiguresEsther Inglis in Her Time and Ours, an IntroductionChapter 1. Beginnings – Flight from France to Scotland, 1570–1590Chapter 2. The Calligraphic Hand, and Gifts for Women of Power, 1586–1591Chapter 3. Marriage to an Intelligencer: A Husband and Wife Team, 1595–1600Chapter 4. The French Connection, 1600–1602Chapter 5. Following the King to London, 1604–1607Chapter 6. Court Connections and the Art of Limning, 1605–1607Chapter 7. A Rural Retreat in Essex, 1607–1614Chapter 8. Homeward Bound, 1614–1620Chapter 9. Last Works and Heritage, 1621–1624: 'my totering right 'Appendix I. Verses by Esther InglisAppendix II. Verses about Esther InglisBibliographyIndex