Margaret Hoby 1571-1633
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Margaret HOBY, Lady HOBY 1571-1633
Biographical Note
Of Hackness, Yorkshire; wife of Sir Thomas Hoby (on her third marriage).
Books
Her diary contains extensive references to reading in her closet; some of her books, with her annotations, survive in Hackness parish library (now in York Minster Library).
Sources
- Cambers, A. Godly reading, 2011, 50-53, 65-7.
- Cambers, A. Readers' marks and religious practice, in J. King (ed), Tudor books and readers, 2010, 211-231.
- Slack, Paul. "Hoby [née Dakins], Margaret, Lady Hoby (bap. 1571, d. 1633), diarist." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.