qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Locke | Her mother, Margery, née Gwynneth or Guinet
(variously spelled), was reported to be witty and housewifely. qtd. in Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Felch, Susan M. “’Noble Gentlewomen famous for their learning’: The London Circle of Anne Vaughan Lock”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, Vol. 16 , No. 2, 1 Mar. 2003, pp. 14-19. 16 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Locke | Anne's father, Stephen Vaughan
, was a London merchant adventurer with strong ties to the court of Henry VIII
. He served as government agent in the Netherlands for Thomas Cromwell
. He was a... |
Cultural formation | Aemilia Lanyer | She belonged to the closely-defined group of artists and performers dependent first on Henry
's, then Elizabeth
's, court. She and her family were probably Protestant in sympathies. Woods, Susanne. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. Oxford University Press, 1999. 4-8 |
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 |
Education | Winifred Holtby | WH
completed her course in the summer of 1921 (the year after women were admitted to degrees at Oxford). On her written exam results she was given a viva (an oral exam) to determine whether... |
Cultural formation | Rose Hickman | She belonged to the London trading class, which was rising rapidly in wealth and influence. Life at this date was hazardous, however. Hers was shaped by her parents' belief in the new reformed religion, and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rose Hickman | RH
's father, William Lok or Locke (1480-1550), had been married before and he was twice more married after the death of his second wife, Katherine (Cook)—who bore him nine children—and whose protestant faith he... |
Textual Production | Rose Hickman | |
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 | 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 | 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, 6 July 2000, pp. 17-18. 17 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Elizabeth I | Elizabeth's father, King Henry VIII
, had been an able and charismatic ruler in his youth. In decline he was tyrannical and paranoid. His second daughter, however, succeeded in remaining on good terms with him... |
Dedications | Queen Elizabeth I | The dedication, also to Henry VIII
, is Elizabeth's only surviving letter to him. This work was written out by the young translator in her own italic hand, and bound and embroidered by herself in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | May Edginton | Francis Baily
was a novelist and one-time editor of Royal Magazine. It was in the context of the magazine that they met, as ME
was one of its contributors. Baily was the author from... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Butts | His forebears had strong links with the artistic world. While he himself was a friend of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, Mary's great-grandfather, Captain Thomas Butts
, had been a patron of William Blake |
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