Elizabeth Wilmot, Countess of Rochester
Elizabeth Wilmot, Countess of Rochester ( 1651 - August 20, 1681 ) was an English noblewoman .
She was the daughter of John Malet and Elizabeth Hawley. In 1667 she married the poet John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester , with whom she had four children: Charles , Anne, Elizabeth and Malet.
Their poems are preserved in a manuscript from the University of Nottingham . It contains songs and a fragment of a pastoral which are attributed to her.
She is portrayed by Rosamund Pike in the feature film The Libertine (2004) .
literature
- James William Johnson: A Profane Wit: The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. University of Rochester Press, Rochester 2004.
- Germaine Greer, Susan Hastings, Jeslyn Medoff, Melinda Sansone (Eds.): Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse . The Noonday Press, New York 1988.
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| SURNAME | Wilmot, Elizabeth, Countess of Rochester |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English nobles |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1651 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 20, 1681 |