 Elizabeth Egerton

Elizabeth Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater ("née" Lady Elizabeth Cavendish; 1626 – 14 July 1663) was an English writer who married into the Egerton family.She was encouraged in her literary interests from a young age by her father, William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, himself an author and patron of the arts surrounded by a literary coterie which included Ben Jonson, Thomas Shadwell, and John Dryden.