07.25.2017 - By Professor Rab Houston
This audio file is intended up be listened to in conjunction with Series 2, Podcast 5, Religious lunacy. Dionys Fitzherbert (1610). https://soundcloud.com/user-516743905/5-religious-lunacy-dionys-fitzherbert-1610
SOURCE: Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England: The Autobiographical Writings of Dionys Fitzherbert. Edited by Katharine Hodgkin (Farnham, 2010), 185, 187, 189.
VOICE CREDIT: Rosie Beech
IMAGE: [Unknown lady 2] PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN LADY, of the English School 1660-1670 at Lyme Park, Stockport, Cheshire. Credit: Universal Images Group, Rights Managed / For Education Use Only
NOTE: We do not know what Dionys Fitzherbert looked like, but this portrait may well represent the style of dress in the aristocratic circles in which she moved.