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12 de jun. de 1996 · ABSTRACT. David Lindley re-examines the murder trials of Frances Howard and the historical representations of her as `wife, a witch, a murderess and a whore', challenging the assumptions that have constructed her as a model of female villainy.
Frances Stewart (née Howard), Duchess of Lennox and Richmond, Countess of Hertford (27 July 1578 – 8 October 1639) was the daughter of a younger son of the Duke of Norfolk. An orphan of small fortune, she rose to be the only duchess at the court of James I of England .
10 de abr. de 2019 · The Countess, otherwise known as Frances Howard, is a fascinating figure. Cast as the poster girl for wicked women of the time, she was an infamous beauty, scion of a powerful family, surrounded by scandal and remembered as a murderer, a witch and a whore. There is a portrait of her by Larkin, famed for his images of Jacobean courtiers, in ...
Frances, Countess of Somerset. A famous beauty, Frances Howard was divorced from Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex in 1613 and married Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, a favourite of James I. In 1615 she and her second husband, along with several accomplices, were convicted of poisoning Sir Thomas Overbury, who had opposed their marriage.
Frances Howard was the daughter of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham and Catherine Carey, Countess of Nottingham. She was a member of the household of Queen Elizabeth as a lady of the Privy Chamber. On New Year's Day 1589, she gave the queen a scarf of black cloth "flourished" with Venice gold and silver, in 1600 she gave seven gold ...
16 de oct. de 2018 · Frances Howard was 14 when she married the 13-year-old Robert Devereux, the 3rd Earl of Essex, in about 1604. The union between the two teenagers was no Romeo and Juliet love match, but a political alliance between two powerful families.
Frances Howard McLaughlin [1] was born in Kansas City, Kansas [2] or Omaha, Nebraska in 1903 [3] to Helen Victoria (née Howard) and Charles Douglas McLaughlin. [4] She was raised as a Catholic. Her mother, nicknamed Bonnie, had been raised a Quaker but converted to Catholicism, and she predeceased her daughter by five years.
