Queen Elizabeth I

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Standard Name: Elizabeth I, Queen
Birth Name: Elizabeth Tudor
Royal Name: Elizabeth I
QEI was a scholar by training and inclination (who wrote translations both as learning exercises and for recreation), as well as a writer in many genres and several languages. As monarch she wrote speeches, and all her life she wrote letters, poems, and prayers. (Some of these categories occasionally overlap.) Once her writing moved beyond the dutifulness of her youth, she had a pungent and forceful style both in prose and poetry.
Full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, by the school of Nicholas Hilliard, 1590. Behind her two hovering angels prepare to crown her. She wears formal and elaborate clothes: tight blonde curls, a ruff, a stiff bodice, petticoat and over-skirt in intricate brocade patterns, deep lace cuffs, strings of pearls and several rings. A lengthy Latin inscription calls her an invincible virgin, mistress of all sciences, founder of Jesus College, Oxford, where the painting hangs.

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Textual Features Liz Lochhead
Mary makes Lochhead's usual exuberant use of Scottish English. LL based Queen Elizabeth 's character on Margaret Thatcher (the Thatcher monster).
Varty, Anne. “The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 641-58.
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In contrast to this topicality, as critic Anne Varty observes, her Queen...
Textual Features Harriet Smythies
Towards the end of this poem about the Crimean War, HS calls on the women of England. She regards them as formed with gentle hands / To minister to suffering,
Smythies, Harriet. Sebastopol.
19
but she nevertheless...
Textual Features Maureen Duffy
While the present-day plot produces a series of surreal confrontations, it is punctuated by a string of glimpses into the past. These begin when Swanscombe Man (the prehistoric human whose bones are the earliest evidence...
Textual Features Katherine Chidley
The title exhorts him to begin the new yeare, with new fruits of love, first to God, and then to his brethren.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
The Introduction or Epistle, To the Godly Reader explains why she has taken...
Textual Features Amelia B. Edwards
ABE seizes the attention of her audience from her first paragraph with her claim that to the surprise of scholars, ancient Egyptian woman turns out to have been always free, respected, and in the full...
Textual Features Mary Robinson
MR writes as a friend to the Revolution, but enters with strong emotion into the personal situation of the queen as the victim of scandal and prejudice. She cites Elizabeth I and Cromwell as examples...
Textual Features Elizabeth Elstob
EE 's first publication consists of a fairly short essay with some poems to fill out the volume. She celebrates Scudéry as a Sappho (one of Scudéry's strong female characters is Sapho) and as...
Textual Features Mary Hays
Though occasionally sketchy (it gives Elizabeth Elstob , for instance, four lines), this is a work of real research, from a consistently feminist point of view. MH investigates the question of women in power with...
Textual Features Elizabeth Elstob
EE 's preliminary list of names suggests considerable research work: it includes several ancient or Anglo-Saxon women as well as Mary Astell , Anne Bacon , Katherine Chidley (as the pamphlet antagonist of Thomas Edwards
Textual Features Mary Wollstonecraft
Though only about twenty percent of its extracts are written by women (the same proportion as from the Bible),
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
501
this book is feminist in its emphasis on the virtue of independent judgement as...
Textual Features Elizabeth Elstob
EE 's dedication to Queen Anne asserts her awareness of being a female pioneer. Another part of her paratext, the preface, defends women's learning and defies both those who set up for Censurers and those...
Textual Production Lucy Aikin
With her Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, published in two volumes, LA launched her work in the particular style of history for which she is best known.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
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Textual Production Eliza Haywood
For this she admitted to using fifteen or sixteen previous lives written in French. Part of her aim is to defend Mary against partisans of Queen Elizabeth .
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto.
233
Textual Production Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
She was working on the research for this novel before she married; the work was interrupted by her father's death in May 1812. After it she wrote: He was the object for which I laboured...
Textual Production Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
MAS describes several very early writing projects. When her mother gave her a writing-case which locked, to ensure privacy, she spent hours in pouring out the effusions of my own bitter heart,
Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts.
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