Katherine Parr

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Standard Name: Parr, Katherine
Birth Name: Katherine Parr
Pseudonym: K. P.
Married Name: Katherine Borough
Married Name: Katherine Neville
Titled: Katherine Neville, Lady Latimer
Royal Name: Queen Katherine
Used Form: Catherine Parr
KP 's interventions in national and ecclesiastical history in the earlier sixteenth century, at the time of the Reformation (which were more far-reaching than has often been recognised), rested on her skill in writing and her faith in the educational power of reading. She produced (besides letters) religious writings: prayers and meditations.

Connections

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Scott
MS expands Duncombe's list of Female Geniuses.
Scott, Mary, and Gae Holladay. The Female Advocate. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California.
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She looks farther into the past for examples than he does. Whereas Duncombe begins with Orinda (Katherine Philips ), MS turns back to the Renaissance...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Agnes Strickland
Their work (covering the lives both of queens regnant and of queens consort up to Anne ) covered enough new ground to be genuinely innovative. Their general thesis was that queens as rulers had been...
Textual Production Queen Elizabeth I
The precocious child who would one day be QEI wrote her earliest surviving letter, in Italian, to her stepmother Katherine Parr .
Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press.
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Textual Production Queen Elizabeth I
Princess Elizabeth (later QEI ) sent Katherine Parr a New Year's gift: a manuscript translation she had done of The Mirrour or Glasse of the Sinful Soul
Neale, J. E. Queen Elizabeth. J. Cape.
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by Marguerite de Navarre (whom she does...
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.
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Textual Production Antonia Fraser
Doing research for her study of Catherine Parr she noted that the huge marble Victorian tomb by Sir Gilbert Scott , which later admirers erected for the queen at Sudeley in Gloucestershire, contributed to...
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 Features Sarah Green
This novel, a third-person narrative, opens arrestingly—It was a cold, and dreary evening, in the month of October 1548
Green, Sarah. The Royal Exile; or, Victims of Human Passions: An Historical Romance of the Sixteenth Century. J. J. Stockdale.
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—on the French Count d'Almaile's discovery of a female skeleton in her coffin...
Reception Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny
It seems, then, that Lady Abergavenny was part-author of a book of prayers that went through seven editions between 1577 and 1626. In 1624 The Perfect Path to Paradise (called by the Oxford Dictionary of...
Reception Mary Astell
Astell's late twentieth-century reputation as a feminist foremother led to a biography by Ruth Perry (1986), a one-volume selection of her work edited by Bridget Hill (The First English Feminist, 1986), and editions...
politics Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit
Lady Tyrwhit's fervent Protestantism was, at this date, a highly politicized position. She and her group of court ladies were hounded by highly-placed religious traditionalists, enemies of Katherine Parr , since the queen was well...
Occupation Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit
Elizabeth Tyrwhit 's life at Court took a different turn after Katherine Parr 's marriage to Henry VIII (on 12 July 1543). She participated with the queen and a whole group of court ladies in...
names Catharine Parr Traill
The family derived CPT 's given names from Henry VIII 's final wife , an intellectual and writer who was closely involved in the foundation of the Church of England. An ancestral connection was alleged.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking.
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Material Conditions of Writing Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit
After the death in childbirth of the former queen Katherine Parr , Elizabeth Tyrwhit, her friend and servant, was called to testify about her deathbed.
Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit,. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers, edited by Susan M. Felch, Ashgate, pp. 1-51.
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Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit
Tyrwhit's collection of prayers is thought to date from the mid 1550s, and tradition suggests that it was written for the future Queen Elizabeth I during her imprisonment by her sister Queen Mary , but...

Timeline

1582: Thomas Bentley edited The Monument of Matrones,...

Women writers item

1582

Thomas Bentley edited The Monument of Matrones, an important anthology containing writings by women, mostly religious.

Texts

Parr, Katherine. “Introductory Note”. Katherine Parr, edited by Janel M. Mueller, Scolar Press; Ashgate, 1996, p. ix - xiv.
Parr, Katherine. Prayers Stirryng the Mynd unto Heavenlye Medytacions. Thomas Berthelet, 1545.
Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit, et al. Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Part 3. Ashgate, 2003.
Parr, Katherine. The Lamentacion of a Synner. Edwarde Whitchurche.