Emilia Lanier was an English writer and poet during the Elizabethan period. Her 1611 volume Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum has been seen as protofeminist. She has a claim to be one of the first women poets with a substantial body of commercially-published work in the English language.
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![Hilliard Miniature, possibly Lanier[4]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Urtext3HilliardEmilia_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Urtext3HilliardEmilia_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Hilliard Miniature, possibly Lanier[4]
St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate
The title page of Lanier's collection of poetry, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum.
"Le Rêve de la femme de Pilate" (The dream of Pilate's wife). Engraving by Alphonse François (1814-1888) after Gustave Doré.
The Chandos portrait, likely depicting Shakespeare, c. 1611Writers born in the 1560s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1569 to 1645 · aged 76
Written about in
16 languages
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