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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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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Rosemary Sutcliff | RS
published her second book, The Queen Elizabeth
Story, through Oxford University Press
, which advertised it as summer reading for children and young people. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 380 |
| 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 Features | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | One of this novel's topics is concealed identity (which results in repeated changes of name for several central characters). As the story opens, two men land at Dublin (which they find desolate, poverty-struck by the... |
| Textual Production | Josephine Tey | The play grew out of an argument with Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
(Daviot's friend since they met on the set of Richard of Bordeaux) about Mary Stuart
's character. (At that time Daviot sided with Elizabeth of England |
| Textual Features | Josephine Tey | Like Richard of Bordeaux, this play follows the troubled career of a less-than-successful ruler and ends with a forced abdication. Daviot's realistic, balanced portrayal of Mary
went against conventional representations of the Queen as... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Violet Trefusis | Around 1924, when VT
was attending classes at the Sorbonne
, she wrote a play (unpublished and probably unperformed) about Mary, Queen of Scots
and Elizabeth I
titled Les soeurs ennemies. Sharpe, Henrietta. A Solitary Woman: A Life of Violet Trefusis. Constable. 79 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Melesina Trench | The title poem of Ellen comes from a story lately reported by newspapers. Other pieces (several of them ballads) deal with historical figures like Queen Elizabeth
, Cardinal Wolsey
, an anonymous monk, and the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eglinton Wallace | She recommends the study of history, and her moral exhortation leans heavily on anecdotal, historical examples. (She also uses quotations from her own unpublished tragedy.) Wallace, Eglinton. Letter from Lady Wallace to Capt. William Wallace. J. Debrett. 62 |
| Textual Production | Evelyn Waugh | EW
published his first historical biography, that of Edmund Campion
, whom one of his reviewers called the most attractive of the Jesuits
who suffered under Queen Elizabeth
's penal administration. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (3 October 1935): 606 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Evelyn Waugh | Waugh emphasized that his book was popular, not scholarly. It opens with an account of Elizabeth
on her deathbed as an old perjured woman, dying without comfort, and reflects throughout the story its author's regret... |
| Author summary | Agnes Wenman | Agnes, Lady Wenman
, a Catholic gentlewoman who married an Anglican in the later years of Queen Elizabeth
, left one identified text: a translation from French of a work of ancient history, written originally... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Williams | The Camden Society
published Letters Written by John Chamberlain
During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, edited by a different Sarah Williams
than her more prolific contemporary of that name; this one died in the... |
| 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 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | She noted in her diary: All the centuries seemed lit up, the past expressive, articulate . . . & so we reach the days of Elizabeth
quite easily. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press. 3: 125 |
| Literary Setting | Virginia Woolf | The protagonist of Orlando notoriously begins as a sixteen-year-old romantic boy in the attic of a palatial great house in the late sixteenth century, practising sword-thrusts at the shrunken head of a Moor killed by... |
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