Isabella Hervey d.1686

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Isabella HERVEY d.1686

Biographical Note

Of Ickworth Manor, Suffolk.

Books

Many books survive today, at Ickworth House and elsewhere, inscribed ”Tho: & Isabella Hervey”, apparently written by Isabella's husband, Thomas Hervey, although there are numerous books which seem initially to have been Isabella’s personally.

Sources

  • History of Parliament.
  • Barker, N. Treasures from the libraries of National Trust country houses, New York, 1998, no 31.
  • Smith, E. Marital marginalia: the seventeenth-century library of Thomas and Isabella Hervey, forthcoming.