Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Tyrwhit's prayers bring together, in cheerful ecumenicity, the Bible, the old Roman Catholic
tradition of books of hours, and newer Lutheran
and humanist influence, grafting new thinking onto an age-old tradition of piety...
Intertextuality and Influence
Queen Elizabeth I
The style is elaborate and heavily ornamented. It was probably inspired by Katherine Parr
's own The Lamentacion of a Synner.
Her family networks, too, were Protestant. Her parents were close friends and country neighbours of Katherine Brandon Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk
(letter-writer, patron of women writers, friend and associate of Katherine Parr
). In 1563...
Friends, Associates
Anne Askew
AA
was associated in these activities with Queen Katherine Parr
; this contributed to her persecution. Authorities hoped to incriminate the queen through AA
.
Wilson, Derek. A Tudor Tapestry: Men, Women and Society in Reformation England. Heinemann.
182
Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press.
xxvii
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit
Although Lady Tyrwhit
was a cousin by marriage of Katherine Parr
, their shared allegiance to the reformed religion was probably the key to their relationship. The Protestant historian John Foxe
wrote that Elizabeth Tyrwhit...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit
He came from a family which owned land at Kettleby in Lincolnshire. During the course of the marriage he held various court or official positions and added to his land holdings. He was a...
Education
Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit
As an adult she belonged to a group around Queen Katherine Parr
which amounted to a a women's bible-study group.
Education
Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth was given a full Renaissance education, latterly under the supervision of her stepmother Katherine Parr
. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, however, insists on the importance in her life of the upper-class...
Cultural formation
Queen Elizabeth I
Brought up both by her teachers and by Katherine Parr
in evangelical Protestantism, she developed into a pragmatic Anglican
, probably both by conviction and by informed political choice. She exercised her diplomatic skills to...
