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...
Friends, Associates
Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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.
