Judith Isham 1590-1625
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Judith ISHAM or LEWIN 1590-1625
Biographical Note
Daughter of William Lewin of Otterden, Kent, lawyer. In 1607 she married 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.