Elizabeth Freke 1642-1714
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Elizabeth FREKE 1642-1714
Biographical Note
Daughter of Raphe Freke of Hannington, Wiltshire, married Percy Freke in 1672; her “autobiographical memoir is an almost entirely secular account of a propertied gentlewoman’s complex and unhappy marriage”.
Books
Her diaries show that she owned ca.100 books.
Sources
- Pearson, J. Women reading, reading women, in H. Wilcox (ed), Women and literature in Britain, 1996, 80-99, 83.
- Todd, Barbara J. "Freke, Elizabeth (1642–1714), autobiographer." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.