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Lucy Hutchinson
English translator and poet
This article is about the seventeenth century writer. For the child actress, see Lucy Hutchinson (actress).
Lucy Hutchinson (née&#;Apsley; 29 January &#; October ) 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 (–).[1]
Biography
Lucy Apsley was born on 29 January in the Tower of London, where her father, Sir Allen Apsley, was Lieutenant.
She was named after her mother, Lady Lucy St John, and was the second of ten children.
Lucy was married on 3 July in St. Andrew Holborn to Colonel John Hutchinson (–). She claimed that he was in part attracted to her intellectual and poetic accomplishments.[2] In , John Hutchinson was one of the signatories of King Charles's death-warrant, but he later protested against the assumption of supreme power
