About this Event
‘Learned women be suspected of many’. So wrote the scholarly author of a plan of study for Princess Mary in 1523. Most intelligent women were denied access to an advanced education but, as this talk explores, the mid-sixteenth century in England nevertheless became a time of educational opportunity for a small number of girls, including the five Cooke sisters. They were “esteemed the most learned women in Europe” wrote historian Revd William Urwick, “closely associated with our county of Hertfordshire and foremost among the illustrious Protestants of Elizabeth’s reign”, who married men of similar education and religion. Strong-minded, active and influential, despite being, as women, excluded from formal public roles, their education and undoubted impact on the Tudor age are explored in this lecture.
Deborah Spring is a Hertfordshire writer whose new book Lady Anne Bacon: A woman of learning at the Tudor Court will be published in October 2024.
This lecture will be available in person at Dagnall Street Baptist Church and also online via Zoom. It is an open lecture, free to members and non-members alike. Please click on the button above right to register. You will then receive confirmation of your registration by email return. Registration closes at 3.30pm on Tuesday 15 October.
The lecture will be followed by the launch of Deborah Spring's new book about one of the Cooke sisters, Lady Anne Bacon.
All those registered will be emailed the Zoom joining instructions by 4pm on the day of the lecture. If you have not received this by 5pm, please contact us using the email address below. NB. If you are registering two or more members to attend via Zoom, and want each of them to receive the link in their own email inbox, these details need to be entered at registration.
If you have any questions, please email Gill Girdziusz via [email protected]
Picture above: Lady Anne Bacon (herts.ac.uk)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Dagnall Street Baptist Church, 1 Cross Street, St Albans, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
