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Catherine Magdalen (previously Elizabeth) Evelyn (1596/7–1668) composed poetry and translations that reflected the humble piety of her religious order, the Poor Clares. The single most important author to emerge from the English Poor Clare convents established on the Continent, Evelyn published more translations during the seventeenth century than any other Englishwoman, and her poem on St. Euphrosina constitutes a major literary work that should figure prominently in the canon of early modern literature.
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Further Reading
Grealy, Faustina, and Jaime Goodrich. 2019. New Light on Seventeenth-Century Translations of the Rule of St Clare: Part I. Archivium Hibernicum 72:7–49.
Temple, Liam. 2019. Mysticism and Identity among the English Poor Clares. Church History 88 (3): 645–71.
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Goodrich, J. (2024). Evelyn, Catherine Magdalen. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_47-4
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