MRP: Biography

Biography

Editorial history

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Overview

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Bibliography

Coleman, Donald Cuthbert, Sir John Banks, baronet and businessman: a study of business, politics and society in later Stuart England (Oxford, 1963)

Goreau, Angeline, Reconstructing Aphra: a social biography of Aphra Behn (XXXX, 1980)

Pritchard, Allan, English biography in the seventeenth century: a critical survey (Toronto, 2005)

Sherman, William Howard, John Dee: the politics of reading and writing in the English Renaissance (Boston, 1995)

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Diaries

Bruce, John (ed.), Diary of John Manningham, of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister-at-law, 1602-1603 (London, 1868)

- Printed edition of BL, MSS. Harleian no. 5353, ff. 1-133
- Strong links of the diarist to Kent, including Canterbury, Sandwich, and Godmersham
- Frequent journeys into Kent to visit a ca. sixty-two year old cousin (1602-3), Richard Manningham (b. ca. 1540, d. 1611), who resided at Bradbourne, near Maidstone. Bradbourne was a family seat in the parish of East Malling, Kent. Bradbourne and East Malling are just over four miles due south of Halling, where Elizabeth Dallison had her marital home in the 1630s and 1640s. Richard Manningham was of Doctors Commons

- The current Bradbourne House was built between 1612 and 1615. Thomas Twisden purchased the estate and house in 1650, with the two remaining in the Twisden family until 1937. The Kent Archaeological Society has published two relevant books: (1) Houe and architecture, with brief history of Twisden family (2) Lives of Twisdens and portraits remaining in the house