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Katherine Stubbes
Katherine Stubbes (Stubbs) was an Englishwoman, best known for being the subject of a biography and memorial tract called ''A Chrystall Glasse for Christian Women'', written and published by her husband Philip Stubbs after her death. Besides details about her parents, marriage, and conduct as a daughter and wife, the work also records the confessions of faith (supposedly verbatim) that she spoke before her death. It also includes her dying farewells to family and friends. The text ends with her dying greetings to Christ.
== Personal life ==
Katherine Stubbes was born Katherine Emmes in either 1570 or 1571, the second-youngest child, and only daughter, of seven.〔Stubbes, Philip. "A chrystall glasse for Christian women." In Early English Books Online. ProQuest. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:image:180866. p. 1.〕〔Mascuch, Michael. ''Origins of the individualist self: autobiography and self-identity in England, 1591-1791.'' Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1997. p. 56〕 Her father, William Emmes,〔Mascuch, p. 56〕 was a cordwainer and a zealous Puritan; her mother was Dutch and a Puritan as well, so Katherine was raised in a very religious household.〔Stubbes, p. 1〕 Katherine was married to Philip Stubbs, an English pamphleteer and publisher, in 1586 at the age of fifteen.〔Travitsky, Betty. ''The Paradise of Women: Writings by Englishwomen of the Renaissance.'' New York: Colombia University Press, 1989. p. 45.〕 Katherine’s father had already died by that time.〔Stubbes, p. 1〕 Mr. Stubbs had "recently gained some notoriety by rebuking the world, and England in particular, for its backsliding with his tract ''The Anatomy of Abuses''," but, because of her father’s death, she most likely had to be married off quickly for financial reasons.〔Mascuch, p. 56〕
In ''A Chrystall Glasse'', Katherine's husband praises her as being very pious, courteous and obedient. She was not prone to indulge in eating or drinking, saying "we should eate to live, & not live to eate."〔Stubbes, p. 3〕 When asked why she had so little care for earthly things, she would say that to be "a friend unto this world…should be an enemie unto God."〔Stubbes, p. 3-4〕 Katherine also never lied or quarreled, and even kept herself far from any unscrupulous behavior and talk, let alone speak as such herself.〔Banerjee, Pompa. ''Burning women: widows, witches, and early modern European travelers in India''. Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1500-1700. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. p. 177〕 Her husband claims that no one ever spoke any bad words about her, for they would have no cause to, "so continently she lived."〔Stubbes, p. 3〕 As a deeply religious and extremely pious woman, much of Katherine's short life revolved around religion and Scripture. Her husband mentions that one almost never saw her without a Bible (or another "good book") in her hands. If she was not actively reading the Bible, she was discussing and reasoning the word of God with her husband.〔Stubbes, p. 2〕
Katherine lived with her husband for almost four-and-a-half years,〔Stubbes, p. 1〕 at which time she became pregnant with a son.〔Stubbes, p. 4〕 She would often say that this child would be her last, and that she would only "live but to bring that Childe into the world."〔Stubbes, p. 4〕 Despite this, she had a very successful delivery—in fact, she reportedly was able to sit up and walk on her own only four or five days after the fact.〔Stubbes, p. 4〕 Katherine’s saying "I have but a short time to live here (Earth )",〔Stubbes, p. 4〕 though it may have been added posthumously by her husband, turned out to be rather accurate. After she had seemed to have a full recovery, she fell seriously ill with ague and languished in her bed, not sleeping for more than an hour at a time, though she had "perfect understanding, sense, and memory to the last breath."〔Stubbes, p. 4〕 She did not pray for her recovery, but to die so she could be with the Lord in Heaven; she constantly prayed for Jesus to take her out of her mortal body.〔Stubbes, p. 5〕 During her final sickness, Katherine "requested that her neighbors be brought into her home so that she might confess publicly."〔Travitsky, p. 44〕 Katherine died on 14 December 1590, a few weeks after her son was born, in Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire. She was only 19 years old.
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