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The English poet Elizabeth Jane Weston, known throughout the Neo-Latin republic of letters as 'Westonia', enjoyed a reputation as a talented and learned.
English-Czech poet, known for her Neo-Latin poetry....
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Elizabeth Jane Weston by unknown Dutch artist kept in Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
Elizabeth Jane Weston (Latin: Elisabetha Ioanna Westonia; Czech: Alžběta Johana Vestonie) (1581 or 1582, in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire – 23 November 1612, in Prague) was an English-Czech poet, known for her Neo-Latin poetry.
She had the unusual distinction for a woman of the time of having her poetry published.
Biography and early life
View of Prague's bridge over the Vltava river, 1606. One of Elizabeth Weston's poems was On the flooding of Prague that occurred after continual rains
Elizabeth was born to Joanna Cooper (23 June 1563 in Chipping Norton - 1606) and her first husband, John Weston, about whom almost nothing is known.
He died when she was six months old. Soon after, Elizabeth's mother was remarried, to the English renaissance occultist, Edward Kelley, who was a well-known alchemist, and the family left England for Prague in Boh