page_title: Jane Dee
section_title: Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Jane Dee / Marriage
caption_attribution_description: English: Mortlake Green Mortlake Green looking to Sheen Lane near Mortlake Railway Station
context_page_description: Jane Dee was an English gentlewoman and lady in waiting whose married life is documented in the journals of her husband, the philosopher, occultist, and mathematician John Dee.
  Jane Dee was born in 1555 to Bartholomew Fromond in Cheam in Surrey. Before her marriage to John Dee, she was a lady in waiting in the entourage of the Countess of Lincoln at the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Her court connections to Elizabeth and to other ladies in waiting may have significantly helped her husband secure patronage.
context_section_description: Jane married John Dee in 1578 when she was 23 and he was 51. Dee was a noted natural philosopher who was particularly interested in divination, Hermetic philosophy and alchemy. 
   He acted as an astronomical and medical advisor to Queen Elizabeth and travelled in Europe studying and advising other European nobles. After their marriage, Jane moved to Dee's home at Mortlake, south-west of London.
  They had a large household of family and servants which Jane had a large role in managing, as well as frequent visitors who collaborated with John on a variety of experiments which he conducted in their home. Jane and their children also travelled with Dee to Poland in 1584 to work for Albertus Laski, a Polish nobleman. She had a son while in Kraków, waiting to join her husband in Prague.
  We know a great deal about Jane Dee because of the detailed diaries and records kept by her husband. Dee recorded interactions between himself and his wife, arguments, and many details of their household. Such detail about the daily life of a sixteenth-century woman is extremely rare.
caption: Mortlake Green - geograph.org.uk - 1276862
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