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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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| Publishing | Mary Hays | She was commissioned to produce this work for the occasion of |
| Reception | Anne Locke | Sanford's work is an updating and revision of The Garden of Pleasure, his translation published in 1573 from the Italian of Ludovico Guicciardini
. His celebration of learned women of all nations and generations... |
| Reception | Anna Hume | AH
's vigorous heroic couplets were called the finest version of Petrarch before the twentieth century by George Watson
in his bibliography of Petrarch in English, 1967. Watson, George. The English Petrarchans. Warburg Institute. 1n |
| Reception | Sophia Lee | The Recess was highly influential: in its basic technique of inserting fictive persons among actual historical ones, in its polarization of Elizabeth
and Mary
, and in its heavily sentimental tone. Writers directly influenced by... |
| Reception | Clemence Dane | The US version, first performed in New York on 1 January 1923, was cut. It received some favourable reviews, especially for the characters Anne Hathaway
and Queen Elizabeth
. Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press. 99 |
| Residence | Jean Plaidy | Many of the royal characters in her historical novels had visited this half-timbered house, which dates back to 1400 and performed the function of a lodging for pilgrims heading for Canterbury. The main doorway, in... |
| Residence | Barbara Cartland | Part of the appeal of Camfield Place for her was its storied history: an oak tree in the garden is said to mark the place where Elizabeth I
shot her first stag, and from 1867... |
| Residence | Anne Locke | AL
and her family left Geneva to return to London following the accession of the Protestant Elizabeth
in November 1558. Morin-Parsons, Kel, and Anne Locke. “Preface, Introduction, Textual Note”. A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner, edited by Kel Morin-Parsons and Kel Morin-Parsons, North Waterloo Academic Press, pp. 9-40. 23 |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Anna Eliza Bray | Owen, his wife Alice, and their children Rose and Edward are terrorized by Catholic tormentors. Bray, Anna Eliza. The Novels and Romances of Anna Eliza Bray. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 3: 40 Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 52 |
| 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 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... |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Norah Lofts | The title flags the controversies surrounding its subject: Anne's marriage gave her her place in history, but according to this novel the king did not have marriage in his mind when he began his pursuit... |
| Textual Features | Antonia Fraser | AF
says in her Author's Note that it occurred to her while she was working on Oliver Cromwell
that women during the English Civil War would make a more interesting subject. She divides her book... |
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