Women in Kent - Quotes
The sad tale of Jane Jaquet,
1605
"She was at last
delivered of a sonn in a Little straw, under a tree, in the Commune
high waie, in a colde nighte, no better provided then you heere:
after a Cruell, and savadge maner, Contrarie to Christianiti,
nature and Humanitie: lefte her ther, to the broad world, and to
shifte for her selfe and her sonn..." (CKS-QM/SB 1335)
Lady Hester Stanhope,
traveller 1812
"Dear Sir,
Before this letter reaches you, you will have heard in all
probability an account of my shipwreck ..., that I am here to
relate it is rather extraordinary, for I escaped not only a sinking
ship, but put to sea in a boat when one could hardly have supposed
it could have lived five minutes, the storm was so great, unable to
make the land, I got ashore not on an island, but a bare rock which
stuck up in the sea, and remained there 30 hours without food or
water..." (CKS-U1590/C253/2)
A proposal of marriage,
Juliana Humphreys, 1825
"My Dear Julia,
With feelings of the warmest affection, and the most perfect
esteem, founded on a long knowledge of your virtues, and the
peculiar sweetness of your disposition, permit me to solicit that
inestimable gift, the object of my ardent aspiration, your hand in
marriage..." (CKS-U1050/C103/2)
Frances Countess
of Dorset, her agreement, 1674
"Whereas I Frances
Countesse of Dorset doe stand in feare of my life from my Lady
Charnocke, because shee did, about two yeares agoe, as I am
credibly informed, lay or offer to lay a wager; thatt I should nott
live a yeare to an end..." (CKS-U269/E72/7)
