Queen Elizabeth I

07 September 1533 - 24 March 1603

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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Literary responses	Catherine Hutton	Hutton transcribed onto the flyleaf of her own copy of Oakwood Hall (volume 3) an unattributed opinion, perhaps given before publication. This critic calls the book clever so far as it is a novel, and...
Intertextuality and Influence	Anna Maria Mackenzie	The epigraph on the first title-page is the sonnet by Queen Elizabeth beginning The toppe of hope, now generally known by the title of Doubt of Future Foes. The second volume's title-page is...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence	Sappho	Sappho 's name was an honorific for women writers for generations. George Puttenham may have been the first to use it to compliment a writing woman: in Parthienades, 1579, he said that Queen Elizabeth
Intertextuality and Influence	Jane Brereton	Each poem is headed by a picture, showing the thatched structure of Merlin's Cave and the stone-built royal hermitage respectively. The first poem, Merlin, is Humbly inscrib'd to Caroline , Brereton, Jane. Merlin. Cave. title-page and after imploring...
Intertextuality and Influence	Sophia Lee	A novelette appeared which was clearly a spin-off from SL 's The Recess: it is entitled (in part) Rose Douglas; or, The Court of Elizabeth; its heroine is sole survivor of twins born...
Health	Dora Carrington	Carrington attempted to give herself a miscarriage by riding a horse violently, and when this did not work she became depressed to a nearly suicidal degree. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 271-2 She had mused to Gerald Brenan in 1920...
Friends, Associates	Ivy Compton-Burnett	Liddell was to remain one of ICB 's close friends. She maintained a benevolent, almost aunt-like relationship with him, and although resident abroad he was an important source of support after Jourdain's death. He later...
Fictionalization	Katherine Parr	Dozens of fictional representations of KP inhabit the fringes of the many re-imaginings of her husband and her step-daughter; few of them pay any attention to her intellectual life or her writing. She takes centre...
Family and Intimate relationships	Lady Colin Campbell	LCC 's parents were married on 2 August 1851 at St Peter's Church in Dublin. “FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Irish estates in County Clare had been in the family since the middle of Queen Elizabeth I 's...
Family and Intimate relationships	Emmeline Pankhurst	She intended to spearhead a campaign to provide a better start in life for the illegitimate children of soldiers and reluctant mothers. (Ethel Smyth tried to dissuade her, took it philosophically when she was...
Family and Intimate relationships	Grace, Lady Mildmay	After the wedding Anthony was active in royal service and often away from home: for the first twenty years of the marriage he was elsewhere for about half of the time. He was knighted in...
Family and Intimate relationships	Margaret Roper	The family of Thomas More were merchants and lawyers of London's bourgeois ruling class: Thomas duly became a lawyer and out of personal passion became a scholar of the new humanist learning. He married again...
Family and Intimate relationships	Anne Locke	She was then courted by Edward Dering , a rising, charismatic, and controversial Protestant preacher who was about ten years her junior. He had recently been so bold as to reprove Queen Elizabeth from the...
Family and Intimate relationships	Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke	Mary Sidney's famous uncle, the Earl of Leicester , was one of Elizabeth 's leading courtiers during Mary's youth, and a patron of actors. Of her mother's other two brothers, one became an earl as...

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