Elizabeth jane weston biography

English-Czech Neo-Latin poet

Elizabeth Jane Weston (Latin: Elisabetha Ioanna Westonia; Czech: Alžběta Johana Vestonie) (1581 or 1582, in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire^[1] – 23 November 1612, in Prague) was an English-Czech poet, known for her Neo-Latin poetry.

She had the unusual distinction for a woman of the time of having her poetry published.

Elizabeth Jane Weston was an English-Czech poet, known for her Neo-Latin poetry.

Weston was English.

English-Czech poet, known for her Neo-Latin poetry.

British scholar and writer who was ranked with the best Latin poets of her day.

The poet's name was Elizabeth Jane Weston, the English maiden in the court of King and Emperor Rudolph II, and known by many at the time simply as 'Westonia'.

Biography and early life

Weston was born to Joanna Cooper (23 June 1563 in Chipping Norton^[2] - 1606) and her first husband, John Weston, about whom almost nothing is known.

He died when she was six months old. Soon after, Weston's mother was remarried, to the English renaissance occultist, Edward Kelley, who was a well-known alchemist, and the family left England for Prague in Bohemia. Kelley's interest in alchemical projects drew the attention of the emperor Rudolf II, who became a patron of his work along with that of the alchemist-mathematician John Dee.

Weston was raised in