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.

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Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln
After a dozen years of marriage, however, her parents-in-law were being pressed by the Privy Council (at the behest of Queen Elizabeth ) to provide suitable accommodation for the young couple and their growing family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wealth and Poverty Lady Anne Clifford
For these ventures, designed to recoup the fortunes he had lost, he had the personal backing and favour of Queen Elizabeth . He was a man of great courage, and endured terrible hardships during some...
Travel Margaret Hoby
They also made frequent winter visits to London: in 1600-1 in connection with their court case against William Eure , again in April-June 1603 for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth (a visit that was...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Ann Kelty
She covers the Reformation from John Wycliffe (born in 1324), to the reign of Queen Elizabeth .
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Violet Fane
The play details the treasonous plot Babington spun to murder Queen Elizabeth and have Catholic Mary Queen of Scots assume the throne.
Fredeman, William E., and Ira Bruce Nadel, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 35. Gale Research.
35: 77
Babington and his associates were executed with great cruelty on 18-19...
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 Lady Anne Clifford
LAC demonstrates here an acute sense of history which is not a modern sense. Her account of Queen Elizabeth 's funeral leads her to expatiate on the implications of Elizabeth 's reign, as much for...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Locke
AL 's title-page quotes from Saint Paul 's Epistle to the Romans: The spirit beareth witnesse to our spirit that wee are the sons of God . . . . The sentence goes on...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Fielding
Its topic was the relationship between Mary Tudor and her sister Elizabeth before either of them came to the throne. Jane Collier 's commonplace-book mentions a scene in Sallys Play, in which a character...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Lucy Aikin
LA 's preface denies the absurd notion that absolute gender equality might be feasible and advises women not to attempt to become inferior men. But she asserts, there is not an endowment, or propensity, or...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Maria van Schurman
Having laid out her case, AMS proceeds to summarise and refute that of her Adversaries. These she classifies as the utilitarian (who value learning purely for its cash or career value) and the envious...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
A biographical lecture on Queen Elizabeth (originally addressed to Working Women's College students) is also reprinted. The lecture begins: Queen Elizabeth, when first she saw the light of day, was a great disappointment. She was...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eva Figes
She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Emily Lawless
The subtitle gives the text the air of a historical account, dissimulating EL 's authorship: Being extracts from a diary kept in Ireland during the year 1599 by Mr. Henry Harvey, sometime secretary to Robert...
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...

Timeline

889-899: King Alfred's last decade was a kind of renaissance...

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889-899

King Alfred 's last decade was a kind of renaissance of learning in his kingdom of Wessex.

12 April 1533: Anne Boleyn, already secretly married to...

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12 April 1533

Anne Boleyn , already secretly married to Henry VIII , was publicly recognised as his consort in the public celebrations of the end of Lent.

19 May 1536: Anne Boleyn, mother of the future Queen Elizabeth,...

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19 May 1536

Anne Boleyn , mother of the future Queen Elizabeth , was executed in London for alleged high treason.

1538: Royal Injunctions appeared: a radical, Erasmian...

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1538

Royal Injunctions appeared: a radical, Erasmian document whose first provision was that an English bible should be made available in every parish church.

June 1554: An eighteen-year-old servant, Elizabeth Croft,...

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June 1554

An eighteen-year-old servant, Elizabeth Croft , confessed in front of a crowd gathered at St Paul's Cross in London that she had taken part in a hoax, playing a supernatural voice that spoke from a...

17 November 1558: Queen Mary I died, and Elizabeth I assumed...

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17 November 1558

Queen Mary I died, and Elizabeth I assumed the throne of England and Wales.

1559: Negotiating between opposing factions, Elizabeth...

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1559

Negotiating between opposing factions, Elizabeth I sought to establish the English Church under her headship; Thomas Cranmer 's Prayer Book of 1552 became the official Book of Common Prayer.

1560: The complete Geneva Bible appeared, translated...

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1560

The complete GenevaBible appeared, translated by English Protestant exiles from the reign of Mary : the first accessible or mass-circulation edition of the Bible in English, with small format and roman (not gothic) print.

18 July 1564: The Merchant Adventurers' Company received...

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18 July 1564

The Merchant Adventurers' Company received a new charter from Elizabeth I that, among other things, incorporated the company in London, extended the geographical range of its dealings, and solified its status as a national...

May 1568: Mary Queen of Scots fled from Scotland to...

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May 1568

Mary Queen of Scots fled from Scotland to England; she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I after standing trial in October that year.

1570: The Scholemaster was published, by Roger...

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1570

The Scholemaster was published, by Roger Ascham , who had been tutor to Princess Elizabeth .

25 February 1570: Pope Pius V issued his papal bull Regnans...

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25 February 1570

Pope Pius V issued his papal bull Regnans in excelsis, excommunicating Elizabeth I and releasing her subjects from their allegiance to her.

9-27 July 1575: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, favourite...

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9-27 July 1575

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester , favourite of Queen Elizabeth , threw a particularly magnificent entertainment for her at Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire.

August 1578: Three female wax figures were found in a...

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August 1578

Three female wax figures were found in a London dunghill with bristles through the chest; the Spanish ambassador reported a widespread assumption that this was a witchcraft threat to the queen 's life.

1579: For the first time in Elizabeth's reign,...

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1579

For the first time in Elizabeth 's reign, the Jesuits were expelled from England.

Texts

Marguerite de Navarre,. A Godly Medytacyon of the Cristen Sowle. Translator Elizabeth I, Queen, Wesel D. van der Straten, 1548.
Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Shell, Marc et al. Elizabeth’s Glass. Translator Elizabeth I, Queen, University of Nebraska, 1993.
Marguerite de Navarre, and Marguerite de Navarre. The Mirrour or Glasse of the Sinful Soul. Translator Elizabeth I, Queen, 1544.
Elizabeth I, Queen. The Poems of Queen Elizabeth I. Editor Bradner, Leicester, Brown University Press, 1964.