Anne Dormer (letter-writer)

Anne Dormer (née Cotterell) (c. 1648–1695), was an English letter writer. Anne was the daughter of Sir Charles Cotterell and sister of Elizabeth (or Katherine) who married Sir William Trumbull (who went on diplomatic missions to Paris and Constantinople, and was later Secretary of State).[1][2] She was the wife of Robert Dormer (1628?–1689) of Rousham House in Oxfordshire, whom she married in 1668.[3][4][5] James Dormer (1679–1741) was their son.[6]

Her correspondence with her sister Elizabeth has been used in several recent histories on the domestic concerns of seventeenth-century women and their legal and romantic relationships with men (part of the study of women's history).[7][8][9][5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Mendelson 2008, p. 153.
  2. ↑ "Elizabeth (or Katherine)" (O'Connor 2009)
  3. ↑ O'Connor 2009.
  4. ↑ Crawford & Gowing 2000, p. 37.
  5. 1 2 Fletcher, Anthony; Larsen, Ruth M. (2025). Mistress: a history of women and their country houses. New Haven ; London: Yale University Press. pp. 62–73. ISBN 978-0-300-16381-0. OCLC 1464949161.
  6. ↑ Spain, Jonathan. "Dormer, James". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7835. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  7. ↑ Crawford & Gowing 2000.
  8. ↑ Mendelson 2005.
  9. ↑ Mendelson 2008.

References

  • Crawford, Patricia M.; Gowing, Laura (2000). Women's worlds in seventeenth-century England (illustrated ed.). Routledge. p. 37. ISBN 0-415-15638-6.
  • Fletcher, Anthony; Larsen, Ruth M. (2025). Mistress: a history of women and their country houses. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 62–73. ISBN 978-0-300-16381-0.
  • Mendelson, Sarah Heller (2005). "Are Married Women persons? The "Rational" Arguments of Anne Dormer". In Jancke, Gabriele; Ulbric, Claudia (eds.). Vom Individuum zur Person. Vol. 10. Wallstein Verlag. pp. 128–144. ISBN 978-3-89244-899-0.
  • Mendelson, Sara (2008). "Chapter Nine: Neighbourhood as Female Community in the Life of Anne Dormer". In Broomhall, Susan; Tarbin, Stephanie (eds.). Women, identities and communities in early modern Europe (illustrated ed.). Ashgate Publishing. pp. 153–164. ISBN 978-0-7546-6184-9.
  • O'Connor, Mary E. (May 2009) [2004]. "Dormer, Anne (1648?–1695)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/66726.
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