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Judith ISHAM or LEWIN 1590-1625

Biographical Note

Daughter of William Lewin of Otterden, Kent, lawyer. In 1607 she married [crossreference::Sir John Isham]] of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire, with whom she had three children, Elizabeth, Judith and Justinian.

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 her mother teaching her reading, and providing her with books, and a list of her mother’s books, made in 1649, is edited as PLRE 270. This includes ca.25 books, largely theological and devotional, but including some books of poetry and household management. The books are all 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]] or [[name::LEWIN]] [[date of birth::1590]]-[[date of death::1625]]===
 ====Biographical Note====
-Member of [[family::the Isham family]] of [[location::Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire]].
+Daughter of [[family::William Lewin]] of [[location::Otterden, Kent]], [[occupation::lawyer]]. In 1607 she married [crossreference::Sir John Isham]] of [[location::Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire]], with whom she had three children, [[crossreference::Elizabeth Isham|Elizabeth]], [[crossreference::Judith Isham 1610-36|Judith]] and [[crossreference::Sir Justinian Isham|Justinian]].
 ====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 her mother teaching her reading, and providing her with books, and a list of her mother’s books, made in 1649, is edited as ''PLRE'' 270. This includes ca.25 books, largely [[subject::theology|theological]] and devotional, but including some books of [[subject::literature|poetry]] and household management. The books are all in [[language::English]].
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