Collinson, Patrick. “Little Bastard”. London Review of Books, pp. 17-18.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | The play is a Senecan tragedy, written for the closet, not the public stage, though it is worth remembering that upper-class circles reading or performing such plays were connoisseurs of the highly dramatised masque... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte McCarthy | Following chapters Of Hell, and Judgment and Of the Soul, and Temptation, she laments a growth in sectarianism and decline in good works. In Of the Romish Religion, she criticizes Catholic beliefs and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rose Hickman | RH
situates her own story within that of her family, and sets the family story in the context of the clash between the reformed and traditional systems of Christianity. She opens with Of My Father... |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | |
Textual Production | Norah Lofts | Catherine had been replaced in the affections and the dynastic ambitions of Henry VIII
by Anne Boleyn, subject of NL
's 1963 historical novel. |
Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | Princess Elizabeth (later QEI
) sent her father
a New Year's gift: her translation of Katherine Parr
's Prayers or Meditacions into three languages: Latin, French and Italian. Collinson, Patrick. “Little Bastard”. London Review of Books, pp. 17-18. 17 |
Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | AF
turned to a perennially popular subject with her historical study The Six Wives of Henry VIII. “Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 276 |
Textual Production | Rose Hickman | |
Textual Production | Rosemary Sutcliff | The two or three that followed included The Armourer's House, set in the reign of Henry VIII
, 1951, and Brother Dusty-Feet, 1952, in which a boy and his dog run away to... |
Textual Production | Jean Ingelow | Around the age of fourteen JI
began penning poetry on the window shutters of her bedroom, after having been denied paper by her strictly evangelical mother
. Her earliest surviving poem is Katherine of Aragon |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | In the novel Murder Most Royal, JP
viewed Henry VIII
's serial marriages through the eyes of two of his wives (both executed at his command), Anne Boleyn
and Catherine (sometimes Katherine) Howard
... |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
launched under this name another historical trilogy, about Catherine of Aragon
(sometimes spelled Katharine or Katherine), Henry VIII
's first wife, with the Tudor novel Katharine, the Virgin Widow. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
followed this Tudor novel with another involving Henry VIII
, this time The Sixth Wife, published in 1953, about Katherine Parr
, who married Henry in 1543 (ten years after Anne Boleyn had... |
Textual Production | Norah Lofts | NL
published another historical work, The Concubine: A Novel Based Upon the Life of Anne Boleyn
, Henry VIII
's Second Wife. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 80 |
Textual Features | Jean Plaidy | In Rose Without a Thorn (in which she returns to the topic of Henry VIII
's fifth wife, Katherine Howard
), she again presents her heroine (realistically considering the age she writes of) in terms... |
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