Bathsua Makin

Patricia L. Hamilton (Union University)

Ed. by Jacqueline Eales, Canterbury Christ Church University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.04: English Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century, 1625-1688.
Vol. editors: Jennifer Brady (Rhodes College), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Neil Forsyth (Université de Lausanne), Claire Preston (Queen Mary, University of London), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University)

Dates

Born c. 1600
Died c. 1675
Activity 1616-c. 1673

Places

Born in England
Active in England

Activities

Primary

Essayist
Poet

Resources

Bathsua Reginald Makin, author of An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, was regarded in seventeenth-century England as a learned woman, notable for her fluency in classical and modern languages. In addition to writing a defense of women's education, she published poetry and established her own school. Her achievement was remarkable for a woman of the middle classes.

Bathsua Reginald was born in 1599 or 1600 to Henry Reginald, a London schoolmaster. Nothing is known of her mother. Her sister, Ithamaria, was born in 1601 and christened at St. Dunstan's, Stepney. The girls' unusual names, variants of the Old Testament “Bathsheba” (King Solomon's mother) and “Ithamar” (a son of Aaron), suggest a…

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Citation: Hamilton, Patricia L.. "Bathsua Makin". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 September 2008 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2891, accessed 28 April 2024.]

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