A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Legge, (Elizabeth)
LEGGE (ELIZABETH), eldest Daughter of Edward Legge, Esq. Ancestor to the Earl of Dartmouth; born 1580.
She was well versed in Latin, English, French, Spanish, and Irish. Whether she published or translated any thing is not known; but she was blind many years before her death, which it was thought was occasioned by her reading and writing too much by candle-light. She was esteemed a good poet. She spent the greatest part of her life in Ireland, and died unmarried at the age of 105, her family being remarkable for longevity.
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