Lumley, Joanna (c. 1537–1576)

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Lumley, Joanna (c. 1537–1576)

British translator. Name variations: Lady Jane or Joanna Lumley. Born Joanna (or Jane) Fitzalan, c. 1537, presumably in Sussex, England; died c. 1576, presumably in Fitzalan home on the Strand; dau. of Henry Fitzalan (c. 1512–1580), 12th earl of Arundel (some record it as 16th earl of Arundel) who was Lord Steward to Elizabeth I, and Katherine Grey Fitzalan (b. around 1520), countess of Arundel; sister of Mary Fitzalan, countess of Arundel (d. 1557); m. John, 1st Baron Lumley, of the Second Creation, c. 1549

The 1st translator of a Greek drama into English, was responsible for an abridged prose version of Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis which was later published as "The Tragedie of Euripedes called Iphigenia translated out of Greke into Englisshe" (H.H. Child ed., 1909).

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