Judith Isham 1610-1636

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Judith ISHAM 1610-1636

Biographical Note

Daughter of Sir John Isham and Judith Isham of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire; sister of Elizabeth and Justinian Isham.

Books

The Isham family library at Lamport Hall was developed over many generations, beginning around the turn of the 17th century. Elizabeth Isham's diaries refer to the love of books and reading of both sisters, and a list of Judith’s books, made in 1649, is edited as PLRE 272. This includes 19 books, all theological and devotional, in English.

Sources

  • Aughterson, Kate. "Isham, Elizabeth (bap. 1608, d. 1654), diarist." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • Black, J. L. & others, Judith Isham, Judith Isham, Elizabeth Isham, Private Libraries in Renaissance England 9 (2017), 179-189, 201-208, 319-345.
  • Cambers, A. Godly reading, 2011, p.47, 65.
  • Graves, R. The Isham books, Bibliographica 3 (1897), 418-29.
  • Jackson, W. A. The Lamport Hall – Britwell Court books, in his Records of a bibliographer (1967), 121-133.
  • Hallam, H. Lamport Hall revisited, The Book Collector 16 (1967) 439-49.
  • Snook, E. Elizabeth Isham’s “own bookes”, in L. Knight et al (eds), Women’s bookscapes in early modern Britain, Ann Arbor, 2018, 77-93.
  • The diary of Thomas Isham of Lamport (1658-81), 1971.