Lady Jane Grey

Standard Name: Grey, Lady Jane
Used Form: The Nine Days' Queen

Connections

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Textual Features Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
EOB writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld for praising Elizabeth Rowe . She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington is the real author of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Bradstreet
The daughter colony comforts her mother nation. Each is skilled in history, New England recalling past civil wars (beginning with those of Matilda and Stephen ), and Old England lamenting the untimely death of Lady Jane Grey
politics Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth's youth was lived in the shadow of national power politics. Her younger brother succeeded her father as king. The year she turned twenty he died, and Lady Jane Grey , placed on the throne...
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny
Her brother Henry, second Earl of Rutland , was associated with extreme reformers including John Dudley (father of Lady Jane Grey ) and was imprisoned in July 1553 for supporting Lady Jane's claim to the throne.
Horton, Louise. “’Restore Me That Am Lost’: Recovering the Forgotten History of Lady Abergavenny’s Prayers”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
26
, No. 1, pp. 3-14.
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politics Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny
FNBA 's husband not only attended the coronation of the Catholic monarch Mary Tudor on 1 October 1553 (while her eldest brother had just been imprisoned for supporting the rival Protestant candidate Lady Jane Grey
Cultural formation Jane Ellen Harrison
In her memoir, JEH writes that although she was English, she hated the idea of the Empire, for it contained the seeds of war. She felt, however, intensely proud of being a Yorkshire woman.
Harrison, Jane Ellen. Reminiscences of a Student’s Life. Hogarth Press.
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Textual Production Isabella Neil Harwood
INH published through Ellis and Green her first volume of plays (none of which had yet been produced) as Lady Jane Grey ; Inez , or, The Bride of Portugal under the pseudonym Ross Neil...
Occupation Harriett Jay
HJ made her London debut the next month, on 22 December, in Buchanan's The Nine Days Queen. In this too she took on the lead role (this time as Lady Jane Grey ). Her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Ann Kelty
Her first subject is Princess Charlotte . After that MAK includes Henrietta (Mrs James) Fordyce , whose life had been written by Isabella Kelly in 1823, and many writers (including Lady Jane Grey , Lady Rachel Russell
politics Lady Jane Lumley
LJL and her husband attended the coronation of Mary Tudor . As a Roman Catholic, John, first Baron Lumley , was a natural Mary supporter, while his wife was cousin to the recently deposed and...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Jane Lumley
The equally learned Lady Jane Grey was a cousin of LJL on her mother's side.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Marcet
The preface to Conversations on Language mentions JM 's long experience and her popularity with the public to justify her presentation to children of such a complex and difficult subject. In Conversations on the History...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary More
MM believes that she is saying something new and not commonly known when she argues that male power over women has grown gradually by unjust laws. She sets out by quoting from and commenting on...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Judith Sargent Murray
She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho , the patriotic heroism...
Textual Features Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Some of the fictions relate to philosophical and theological debates of the time;
Bigold, Melanie. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Trotter, Carter, and Rowe.
others have subject-matter typical of the novels of Eliza Haywood or Penelope Aubin . Love situations turn on eros as well as...

Timeline

6 July 1553: The sixteen-year-old Edward VI died, producing...

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6 July 1553

The sixteen-year-old Edward VI died, producing a succession crisis: for fear of rule by his Catholic sister Mary , Edward pronounced both his sisters to be bastards, and the crown passed (very briefly) to Lady Jane Grey

10 July 1553: Lady Jane Grey (who descended through her...

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10 July 1553

Lady Jane Grey (who descended through her mother from Henry VIII 's sister Mary ) acceded to the throne of England.

19 July 1553: Lady Jane Grey was deposed as queen, and...

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19 July 1553

Lady Jane Grey was deposed as queen, and Mary Tudor assumed the throne of England and Wales.

12 February 1554: Lady Jane Grey was executed in consequence...

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12 February 1554

Lady Jane Grey was executed in consequence of her parents' claim of the throne for her.

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

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1582

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

12 October 1597: Michael Drayton's England's Heroicall Epistles...

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12 October 1597

Michael Drayton 's England's Heroicall Epistles was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it appeared the same year.

20 April 1715: Nicholas Rowe's she-tragedy Lady Jane Gray...

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20 April 1715

Nicholas Rowe 's she-tragedyLady Jane Gray was first performed.

By December 1825: The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey were...

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By December 1825

The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey were published with a memoir by R. H. Nicholas.

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