Lucy Hutchinson

This article is about the seventeenth century writer. For the child actress, see Lucy Hutchinson (actress).

Lucy Hutchinson

Lucy Hutchinson (née Apsley; 29 January 1620 – October 1681) was an English translator, poet, and biographer, and the first person to translate the complete text of Lucretius's De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) into English verse, during the years of the Interregnum (1649–1660).[1]

  1. ^ This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J. M. Dent & sons; New York, E. P. Dutton