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Evelinge, Elizabeth (1597 - 1668)

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Short name Evelinge, Elizabeth
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First name Elizabeth
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Alternative name Sr Catherine Magdalen
Date of birth 1597
Date of death 1668
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Lived in Belgium , England
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Declarations and Ordinances (1622) 0 0
The History of the Angelicall Virgin Glorious S. Clare (1635) 1 0

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For a modern edition of her life of St Clare, see Frans Korsten (ed.), Elizabeth Evelinge, I. The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works, series 1, part 3 (New York: Ashgate, 2002). See also Marie-Louise Coolahan, 'Identity Politics and Nuns' Writing', Women's Writing, 14 (2007), 306-20.

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Elizabeth Evelinge professed as a nun at the exiled English convent at Gravelines in 1620 (name in religion Sr Catherine Magdalen). She was a founding member of the English Poor Clare convent at Aire in 1629.

For a modern edition of her life of St Clare, see Frans Korsten (ed.), Elizabeth Evelinge, I. The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works, series 1, part 3 (New York: Ashgate, 2002).
See also Marie-Louise Coolahan, 'Identity Politics and Nuns' Writing', Women's Writing, 14 (2007), 306-20.