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Fane, Elizabeth

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Elizabeth, Lady Fane (also Vane; née Brydges) (c. 1510–1568), was an English writer, religious radical, and literary patron. She is memorialized in John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments for her hospitality to Protestant reformers and martyrs.

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  • Anon. 1564. Certain Most Godly, Fruitful, and Comfortable Letters of Such True Saints and Holy Martyrs of God, as in the Late Bloodye Persecution here within this Realme, Gave their Lyves for the Defence of Christes Holy Gospel written in the Tyme of Their Afflictions and Cruell Imprisonment. London: John Day.

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    Sara Read

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Read, S. (2022). Fane, Elizabeth. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_268-1

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