by Administrator | Dec 13, 2017 | Quick Reads
Lucy Hutchinson was the earliest and most rebellious of Nottingham’s writers. Her Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson is part historical adventure/ part panegyric to her husband, Governor of Nottingham Castle, who was one of the regicides of Charles I....
by Administrator | May 2, 2017 | Readers & Writers
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was born in 1689 at Holme Pierrepont, Rushcliffe. The eldest daughter of Lord Kingston and Lady Mary Fielding, she spent much of her childhood at Thoresby Hall, teaching herself Latin. Her elegant translations, romances and satirical...
