Lucy Hutchinson

[2] In 1649, John Hutchinson was one of the signatories of King Charles's death-warrant, but he later protested against the assumption of supreme power by Oliver Cromwell.

[2] In the book, she records that John Hutchinson had many notable victories in the Civil War, including at Shelford Manor on 27 October 1645.

Lucy Hutchinson is the first named translator of the full text of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura into English verse.

[2] In 1675 she dedicated a manuscript copy of the translation to acquaintance and literary patron Arthur Annesley, earl of Anglesey, repudiating the work and declaring it to be in conflict with her Puritan values.

[5] A series of original poems by Hutchinson was re-discovered in a manuscript in the Nottinghamshire Archives (DD/Hu 2) by David Norbrook.

Hutchinson's other works included Order and Disorder, arguably the first epic poem written by a woman in the English language.

The work is a verse paraphrase of the Book of Genesis, offering parallels to John Milton's Paradise Lost.

[10] Amongst her other religious writings is a translation of Congregationalist divine John Owen's work Theologoumena pantodoupa.