Anne Vaughan Lock

Kel Morin-Parsons (Independent Scholar - North America); Revised By: Lisa Schnell (University of Vermont)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.03: English Writing and Culture: Renaissance (Elizabethan and Jacobean periods) , 1485-1625.
Vol. editors: William M. Hamlin (Washington State University), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University), Ema Vyroubalova (Trinity College Dublin)

Dates

Born c. 1534
Died 1595
Activity 1560-1590

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Born in England
Active in England

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Anne Vaughan was born around 1534, the daughter of a successful and well-connected mercer. She was, by way of birth, then marriage, and then inheritance, among the wealthiest women of her time in England. Stephen Vaughan’s considerable business interests in Antwerp, as well as his relationship with Thomas Cromwell, chief architect of the Henrician Reformation and arguably the most powerful statesman of the sixteenth century, brought him into close proximity with early forms of Protestantism both in England and on the Continent. By the time he married his second wife, when Anne was still a young girl, he seems to have definitively aligned himself with Reform theology: she was a zealous Protestant whose faith likely had a significant …

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Citation: Morin-Parsons, Kel, Lisa Schnell. "Anne Vaughan Lock". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 December 2006; last revised 21 September 2012. [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11755, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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