Good Gentlewoman Blog posts Archive - Page 10 of 11

Published on: 27th June 2012

When Sarah Whiting married Samuel Sparhawk on December 2, 1696 in Cambridge, Massachusetts the town was still a small...

Published on: 18th June 2012

Today's GG post takes a look at a less aristocratic but none the less interesting family and two women who lived an...

Published on: 15th June 2012

The St John family has several close connections with Royalty. Barbara, Countess of Castlemaine had a whole nursery full...

Published on: 13th June 2012

In her book Cavalier - The Story of a 17th century Playboy - Dr Lucy Worsley describes the three Cavendish sisters as...

Published on: 9th June 2012

Most of what we know about Elizabeth Cromwell is based on propaganda written either by disaffected Parliamentarians or...

Published on: 6th June 2012

Sometimes it is only in death that we learn a little of the life of a Good Gentlewoman. Judith St John was born in c 1545...

Published on: 31st May 2012

Elizabeth Armistead's client list reads like a who's who of 18th century society. The scurrilous Town and Country Magazine...

Published on: 27th May 2012

When Lady Johanna St John wrote her will in 1703 she left personal bequests to her son Henry and daughters Johanna Chute and...

Published on: 24th May 2012

Emma Whitbread was probably most men’s idea of the perfect wife. When she wed Henry Beauchamp, 13th Baron St John of...

Published on: 22nd May 2012

By 1762 the marriage between Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke and his wife Diana, eldest daughter of Charles, 2nd...

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