Some of these might be a bit far fetched but maybe they are of some use. By these means she aquired a great deal of skill"Ī Tomazine Scarlet was imprisoned and fined by the College of Physicians for using stibium in 1588 which probably means she was Paracelsian in orientation, though she claimed to be illiterate, so this must be doubtful.Īnother doubtful attribution must be the wife of Richard Mathew's- the Mathew's who got into the pamphlet war with George Starkey about the "mathew's pill" "Sir Water Raleigh and Mr Ruthin being prisoners in the Tower, and addicting themselves to chemistry, she suffered them to make their Rare experiments at her cost, partly to comfort and divert the poor prisoners, and partly to gain the knowledge of their experiments, and the medicines to help such poor people as were not able to seek physicians. The mother of Lucy Hutchinson, who was the wife of the superintendant of the Tower of London may well have learnt alchemy from Sir Walter RalieghI quote from *Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson* everyman's edition 1908 p12. John Aubrey writes Mary Countess of Pemboke "was a great Chymist, and spent yearly a great deale in that study" There is a "mistress oglevy" described as a "rare chymical genetlewoman" and a Lady Judith Barrington" mentioned in Stephen Clucas *The correspondence of a XVII-century gentleman:Sir Cheney Culpepper.* AMBIX vol 40 p.149 1993 There is the tract attributed to Cleopatra- interesting that it was attributed Not much use here but there's also Rebecca wife of Thomas Vaughn, Lady Anne Conway might be thought of as a spiritual alchemist. Can anyone help my memory on this point? It would be good if I could draw up a list. There is of course Leona Constantia who wrote 'Sonnenblume der Weisen', 1704, but I cannot easily recall any other woman alchemists. I truly could not immediately call to mind more than three, Maria the Jewess and Miriam the prophetess, and Perenelle wife of Flamel - all of these more mythical figures than real individuals. Some weeks ago I met an art historian who was researching alchemical symbolism and who asked me about female alchemists. The Alchemy web site on Female Alchemists Back to Alchemy Forum page.
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