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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Bradstreet
AB was writing poetry while still in her teens. Langland 's Piers Plowman, Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke (whose mother, like AB , was born a Dudley), and Camden 's life...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Bradstreet
In her Elegy Upon . . . Sidney, In Honour of Du Bartas, and In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory, AB pays measured and solemn...
Textual Features Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw
The novel consists largely of the personal histories of its (good) central characters, told severally in flashback. Maria's relates, with documents, how her father died young, leaving her co-heiress with her sister, while her violent-tempered...
Literary Setting Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw
Each title-page proclaims: If the cap fits, wear it—perhaps acknowledging the à clef element of the story.
Bradshaw, Mary Ann Cavendish. Memoirs of Maria, Countess d’Alva. William Miller.
1: title-page
This melodramatic, romantic farrago, confused in chronology and inflated in style, is set during the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Boyd
EB endorses Haddock 's blockade of Spain. She opens on England's greatness in the days When Great Eliza fill'd the British Throne; she praises Elizabeth for her decision not to marry Philip of Spain
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Enid Blyton
It was made of the same mix as Sunny Stories: a letter from the editor, nature notes, stories, strip cartoons, serials, puzzles and competitions, letters from child readers, and the organisation of fund-raising for...
Textual Production Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
EOB turned to history in her next biography, Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, mother of Elizabeth I .
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
25: 273
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Despite her subject, EOB refrains from demonizing Queen Elizabeth . She goes into great detail about the cultural milieu in which Mary grew up (the sixteenth-century French court) and uses unpublished letters to add depth...
Textual Features Simone de Beauvoir
SB produces a treatise rather than a polemic, using a studied moderation of tone. She deploys an artful range of styles and her material is drawn from biology, history, sociology, economics, and in a large...
Education Mary Basset
Mary Roper (later MB ) was taught as a child to read Greek and Latin. Her mother tried to get Roger Ascham to teach her, but found him unwilling to leave Cambridge University. (He did...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Bacon
AB bore her younger son, Francis , who became an influential scientist, writer, and thinker, as well as Lord Chancellor of England, and Viscount St Albans.
The early-twentieth-century Baconian movement (a group of scholars and...
politics Anne Bacon
In spite of her Puritan convictions AB pledged her allegiance without delay to the Catholic Queen Mary and was later a gentlewoman of the privy chamber. She thus benefited the male members of her family...
Occupation Anne Bacon
Some years after Elizabeth came to the throne, AB entertained the queen at Gorhambury. She was also an active patron of young Puritan clergymen and a protector of those whose radical beliefs made them suspect...
Textual Production Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy
MCA made what seems to be her first appearance in English, with The Novels of Elizabeth Queen of England , Containing the history of Queen Ann of Bullen (which represented a part of her Nouvelles...
Textual Features Penelope Aubin
PA celebrates recent military victories, and praises Anne for completing Queen Elizabeth 's work in assuring the strength of the Church of England . She provides lavish panegyric for every Stuart monarch, as her ravish'd...

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