The Meditations of Lady Elizabeth Delaval Written Between, 1662-1671
This record of the meditations and prayers of the independent and high-spirited daughter of Sir James Livingston, Viscount Newburgh, was written between the ages of fourteen and twenty-three, to assist self-examination and repentance of sins. They detail her relationships with her family, close friends and certain servants and her reflections on her courtships and marriage. Lady Elizabeth had royal connections and was later closely involved with various Jacobite plots and schemes. Bodleian Library MS. Rawlinson D. 78. Biography, 17c
ReligionMeditations
RELEASED1975
PUBLISHERSurtees Society
LENGTH223
LANGUAGEEN
American historian, editor, and author > Douglas G. Greene is by profession a university teacher and by avocation a dilettante. He graduated from the University of South Florida in 1966, and after obtaining the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago he joined the faculty of Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, in 1971. Since 1983, he has been Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Humanities. He is author and/or editor of eight books, including two posthumous collections of stories and plays by John Dickson Carr: *The Door to Doom* (1980) and *The Dead Sleep Lightly* (1983). He is married with two children. >>From "The Editors" autobiographical note in <a href=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20373490W/>*Death Locked In*</a>, 1987
The Meditations of Lady Elizabeth Delaval Written Between, 1662-1671
This record of the meditations and prayers of the independent and high-spirited daughter of Sir James Livingston, Viscount Newburgh, was written between the ages of fourteen and twenty-three, to assist self-examination and repentance of sins. They detail her relationships with her family, close friends and certain servants and her reflections on her courtships and marriage. Lady Elizabeth had royal connections and was later closely involved with various Jacobite plots and schemes. Bodleian Library MS. Rawlinson D. 78. Biography, 17c
ReligionMeditations
RELEASED1975
PUBLISHERSurtees Society
LENGTH223
LANGUAGEEN
American historian, editor, and author > Douglas G. Greene is by profession a university teacher and by avocation a dilettante. He graduated from the University of South Florida in 1966, and after obtaining the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago he joined the faculty of Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, in 1971. Since 1983, he has been Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Humanities. He is author and/or editor of eight books, including two posthumous collections of stories and plays by John Dickson Carr: *The Door to Doom* (1980) and *The Dead Sleep Lightly* (1983). He is married with two children. >>From "The Editors" autobiographical note in <a href=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20373490W/>*Death Locked In*</a>, 1987
