Difference between revisions of "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.

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+===[[name::Judith]] [[name::ISHAM]] [[date of birth::1610]]-[[date of death::1636]]===
 ====Biographical Note====
-Member of [[family::the Isham family]] of [[location::Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire]].
+Daughter of [[crossreference::John Isham 1582-1651|Sir John Isham]] and [[crossreference::Judith Isham]] of [[location::Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire]]; sister of [[crossreference::Elizabeth Isham 1608-1654 |Elizabeth]] and [[crossreference::Justinian Isham 1611-1675|Justinian Isham]].
 ====Books====
-The family developed the library at Lamport Hall over many generations, until largely dispersed in the late 19th century. [[crossreference::Elizabeth Isham]] refers in a [[format::manuscript]] diary to "the bookes which I had in my closet".  Her list of her mother’s books, ca. 25 titles, is edited as ''Private Libraries in Renaissance England'' 270; a separate list of her sister’s books, 17 titles, as ''Private Libraries in Renaissance England'' 272; and a list of her own books, ca.100 titles, as ''Private Libraries in Renaissance England'' 276.
+The Isham family library at Lamport Hall was developed over many generations, beginning around the turn of the 17th century. [[crossreference::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 [[subject::theology|theological]] and devotional, in [[language::English]].
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