A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/English, (Esther)
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ENGLISH, ESTHER.
A remarkable fine penwoman in the reign of queen Elizabeth and James. Some of her performances are still extant in several collections. One of them is very curious, it is intituled, Octonaries upon the Vanity and Inconstancy of the World; written by Esther Inglis, the first of January, 1600: it is done on an oblong 8 vo. in French and English verse: the French in print hand, and the English in Italic, or secretary; and is ornamented with flowers and fruits, painted in water colours, and, on the first leaf, is her own picture, in a small frame. At the age of forty, she married a Mr. Kello, by whom she had a son, who was in orders. From one of her pieces, it appears that bishop Hall, of Norwich, was her particular friend.
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