Photos of The Mirror of the Worlde book launch at Burford Priory, Oxfordshire, where the 1598 manuscript was first found.
The Mirror of the Worlde, edited by Lesley Peterson, is the first full transcription of Elizabeth Cary’s manuscript translation of L'Epitome du Théâtre du Monde d'Abraham Ortelius (c. 1588). Dedicated to her mother’s well-connected aristocratic uncle, Sir Henry Lee, The Mirror of the Worlde - one of the first known English versions of Ortelius - is a rich source of information about her childhood and education, the writers who influenced her, and the emerging themes and preoccupations that would come to inform her later work.
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