ABSTRACT
After her lord’s death she never went to masques nor plays, not so much as at the court, though she loved them very much, especially the last extremely; nor to any other such public thing.
One of the earliest commentaries upon Early Modern women writers was compiled by George Ballard in 1752. His short biographies cover four of the women referred to in this collection (Joanna Lumley, Mary Sidney, Elizabeth Brackley and Margaret Cavendish) although not all the material is relevant to their dramatic work. Ballard is a mine of information and fascinating not least because he includes female authors whose works have not yet been rediscovered. Text from George Ballard (1752), Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, Oxford: W.Jackson, pp. 121-2 and 301.
