Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects Honors Program 5-2019 Crafting a Legacy - The Late Widowhood of Lady Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell, 1590-1609 Frankie Kristine Urrutia-Smith Utah State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/honors Part of the Women's History Commons Recommended Citation Urrutia-Smith, Frankie Kristine, "Crafting a Legacy - The Late Widowhood of Lady Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell, 1590-1609" (2019). Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects. 531. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/honors/531 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors Program at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. CRAFTING A LEGACY -THE LATE WIDOWHOOD OF LADY ELIZABETH COOKE HOBY RUSSELL, 1590-1609 by Frankie Kristine Urrutia-Smith Capstone submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for graduation with UNIVERSITY HONORS with a major in History in the Department of History Approved: Capstone Mentor Departmental Honors Advisor Dr. Susan Cogan Dr. Julia Gossard Committee Member University Honors Program Director Dr. Norm Jones Dr. Kristine Miller UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY Logan, UT Spring 2019 Crafting a Legacy: The Late Widowhood of Lady Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell 1590-1609 Lady Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell is known as one of the remarkably educated Cooke sisters of the Elizabethan period. She married first Thomas Hoby and then John Russell and had seven children. After being widowed twice, Elizabeth became known as a powerful courtier. She was a devout Protestant and became famous for barring Shakespeare from building the Globe Theatre in her neighborhood.