Background
She was a daughter of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury and Mary Cavendish.
She was a daughter of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury and Mary Cavendish.
They had no children, and the Earl died in 1639. Afterwards she is thought to have married the writer, John Selden, who had worked for the Earl. After her death, her collection of medical recipes was published as A Choice Manual, or Rare Secrets in Physick and Chirurgery Collected and Practised by the Right Honourable the Countess of Kent, late deceased.
A book published in 1653 by West. J. Gent A True Gentlewomans Delight is considered to be her personal recipe collection, although there is speculation that the cookbook was written by the countess"s chef Robert May, or by the publisher himself.