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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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| 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 | 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 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 | 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 | 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 | Catharine Macaulay | The first two volumes carried the story from Queen Elizabeth
's death to 1641. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992. 26 |
| Textual Features | Anne Grant | Leaving these images of militarism and turning back to Britain with Princess Charlotte
in mind, AGcast[s] a forward glance to hope again / Protracted blessings in a female reign, Grant, Anne. Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. Ballantyne, 1814. 48 |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Elinor James | James's strong admonitory style has much in common with that of religious prophets. She is equally ready to cross swords with Quakers and Dissenters on the one hand and Catholics on the other, to venerate... |
| 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 | Hilary Mantel | She is interested in hidden history, in apparently negligible people or objects whose historical significance is apparent only with hindsight, like the ginger-haired baby who would one day be known as Queen Elizabeth
or the... |
| Textual Production | Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke | Queen Elizabeth
was to visit Wilton House, and for the occasion Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
, wrote a brief pastoral dialogue or eclogue: Thenot and Piers in Praise of Astrea. Waller, Gary F. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: A Critical Study of Her Writings and Literary Milieu. University of Salzburg, 1979, http://BLC. 80 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Jenkins | EJ
published a life of Elizabeth I
, Elizabeth the Great, which gives comparatively little attention to politics, diplomacy, or economics, but pays close attention to psychological characterization. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2962 (5 December 1958): 699 British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987. 1973 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Jenkins |
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