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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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...
Textual Features Lucy Hutchinson
LH 's opening address To my Children (probably written after the body of the work) describes John Hutchinson 's appearance and virtues—which, she writes, need no panegyric but will appear most glorious in a plain...
Textual Features Claire Luckham
This episodic play traces the course of Anne Boleyn's relations with King Henry VIII from 1526 to her execution on 19 May 1536, ending with news of this event. It focuses on the early years...
Textual Features Leonora Carrington
The narrative is told in the first person to you, LC 's interlocutor Jeanne Megnen , and divided into five journal or diary entries dated 23-27 August 1943. Across those entries LC recounts her...
Textual Features Carola Oman
Her introduction disappointingly says nothing personal, nothing about Oman's association with Hertfordshire. It is in effect a biography, thorough and sometimes humorous, of Chauncy, taking in his forebears, descendants, and legal career. His topographical work...
Textual Features Jean Plaidy
This novel describes the years of Mary's imprisonment by Elizabeth . Its plots, counterplots and torture, the desperate appeals written by its protagonist to potential supporters from her various dank prisons, are all over-shadowed by...
Textual Features Mary Caesar
MC begins with a commemorative account of the dealings of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (First Lord of the Treasury under Queen Anne ), with her husband, Charles Caesar . It was news of...
Textual Features Clemence Dane
Will Shakespeare is written in blank verse, but does not imitate Elizabethan language. Subtitled an invention, the play dramatises Shakespeare 's early career as a writer, focusing on his move from Stratford to London...
Textual Features Amelia Opie
Both in an Address to the Editor and in a series of explanatory footnotes, AO positions herself on the one hand as a historian with a proper regard for available evidence, and on the other...
Textual Production Charlotte Lennox
The magazine was published through Newbery , as by the author of The Female Quixote. Its launch was hailed by Charlotte Forman (wrapped in the cloak of a male pseudonym) in the Public Ledger...
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
ES published a second biography of a queen: Fanfare for Elizabeth.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
59-60
Textual Production Diana Primrose
The only known work by the unidentified DP , A Chaine of Pearle; or, a Memorial of . . . Queen Elizabeth (a sequence of ten poems) was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it...
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
ES , near the end of her life, published a new biography of Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots : The Queens and the Hive. (Her final poetry volume came out on the same day.)
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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