English biographer and the first person to translate the complete text of Lucretius’s De rerum natura (“On the Nature of Things”) into English, during the years of the interregnum (1649–1660). A rare female Latin scholar, she found her liberation in science.
She was married on 3 July 1638 in St. Andrew Holborn, London England to Colonel John Hutchinson, one of those who signed the death-warrant of King Charles I of England, but who afterwards protested against the assumption of supreme power by Oliver Cromwell. She has a place in literature for her biography of her husband Memoirs Of The Life Of Colonel Hutchinson, where she throws lights upon the characteristics and conditions of the life of Puritans of good family. Intended for her family only, it was printed by a descendant in 1806, and cleared away many false impressions about the narrowness and austerity of the educated Puritans.
Hutchinson’s works included Order and Disorder, possibly the first epic written by a woman in the English language. The work is a verse rendition of the Book of Genesis. Hutchinson’s verse translation of De Rerum Natura was dedicated to Lord Anglesy, who added the manuscript to his extensive library. The manuscript was sold to the British Library by his heirs in the mid-nineteenth century. It was published for the first time in 1996.
John and Lucy Hutchinson had nine children. She died in 1681.
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