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There was a 31-year age-gap between them, but in spite of this Milton's marriage to her seems to have been incredibly happy. Indeed, Elizabeth was described as Milton's "Third and best wife," though some argued that she cheated his children and heirs out of their money upon his death. After Milton's death, Mynshull never remarried. [citation ...
John Milton was born in Bread Street, London, on 9 December 1608, the son of composer John Milton and his wife Sarah Jeffrey. The senior John Milton (1562–1647) moved to London around 1583 after being disinherited by his devout Catholic father Richard "the Ranger" Milton for embracing Protestantism. [7]
Milton's parents were John Milton, Sr. (1562–1647), a composer and scrivener, and his wife Sara Jeffrey (1572–1637). [1] John Milton, Sr.'s business owned many properties and was involved in making loans. [2] He was from a yeoman family and was raised in Oxford, where he trained as a chorister.
On a harsher note, James Macleod Sandison has reprimanded Graves's account of Milton: 'Before leaving the anti-Miltonists, I feel compelled to deplore Robert Graves' Wife to Mr. Milton: it is an unfortunate book which might do much to deepen the erroneous impression of Milton as a surly and narrow-minded puritan.' [6] In Graves's defence Ian ...
"Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint" is the first line of a sonnet by the English poet John Milton, typically designated as Sonnet XXIII and thus referred to by scholars. The poem recounts a dream vision in which the speaker saw his wife return to him (as the dead Alcestis appeared to her husband Admetus ), only to see her disappear again ...
John died at age 54 in 2003 after suffering from aortic dissection. The John Ritter Foundation was created in 2010 to honor the late star and raise awareness about the disease and how to prevent it.
John Lithgow and wife Mary Yeager have learned to turn the actor’s work trips into vacations.. Now that Yeager is retired from her job at UCLA, where she was a professor of business and economic ...
Pierre Bayle, in his Nouvelles (1685) and Dictionaire Historique et Critique (1697), describes the idea of Milton approving of divorce and polygamy as common knowledge and traces these views to Milton's problems with his wife. Nicolaus Moller, in his De Polygamia Omni (A study of All Polygamy) (1710), lists Milton twice. [17]