Elizabeth Isham 1608-1654

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Elizabeth ISHAM 1609-54

Biographical Note

Of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire.

Books

The Isham family developed the library at Lamport Hall over many generations, until largely dispersed in the late 19th century. Elizabeth refers in a manuscript diary to "the bookes which I had in my closet". Her list of her mother’s books, ca. 25 titles, is edited as Private Libraries in Renaissance England 270; a separate list of her sister’s books, 17 titles, as Private Libraries in Renaissance England 272; and a list of her own books, ca.100 titles, as Private Libraries in Renaissance England 276.

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.