A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Fane, (Elizabeth)
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FANE, (ELIZABETH)
Author of several pious meditations and proverbs, in the English language, which were printed by Robert Crowland, with this title, The Lady Elizabeth Fane's Twenty-one Psalms, and One hundred and two Proverbs. London, 1550.
Who this lady was is not easy to ascertain. By the title given her, one would suppose her to be an earl's daughter: but it does not appear from Dugdale, Collins, nor any other who have given the peerage of the Fane family, that there was, or indeed could be, any such lady in it, near the time she is supposed to have lived. She was therefore, very probably, either the wife of Richard Fane, who married Elizabeth, the daughter and heir of Stidolph, living in the latter end of the reign of Henry VIII. or of Sir Thomas Fane, who was engaged in Wyatt's rebellion in the first year of queen Mary.