Evelyn, Catherine Magdalen

Catherine Magdalen (previously Elizabeth) Evelyn (1596/7–1668) composed poetry and translations that reflected the humble piety of her religious order, the Poor Clares. The single most important author to emerge from the English Poor Clare convents established on the Continent, Evelyn published more translations during the seventeenth century than any other Englishwoman, and her poem on St. Euphrosina constitutes a major literary work that should figure prominently in the canon of early modern literature.