A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Lumley, Joanna, Lady

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4120748A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Lumley, Joanna, Lady

LUMLEY, JOANNA, LADY,

Eldest daughter of Henry Fitz-Allan, Earl Arundel, married Lord John Lumley. She was very learned, and translated from the Greek three of the orations of Isocrates, of which the MS. is still preserved in the Westminster Library. She also translated the Iphigenia of Euripides. Her death occurred in 1620.