Elizabeth Isham 1608-1654
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Elizabeth ISHAM 1609-54
Biographical Note
Member of the Isham family 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.