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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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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| 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 | 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. 48 |
| Textual Features | Charlotte Smith | In this book the ancient and imposing but crumbling manor house is an emblem of English society as a whole: a trope which was to be popular with later novelists. The downtrodden orphan heroine, Monimia... |
| 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 Features | Sally Purcell | On a Cenotaph quotes a phrase from Baudelaire
's poem Lesbos: the shocking juxtaposition of a dead body with adoration in le cadavre adoré di Sapho
. Though SP
supplied notes to some things... |
| Textual Features | Liz Lochhead | Mary makes Lochhead's usual exuberant use of Scottish English. LL
based Queen Elizabeth
's character on Margaret Thatcher
(the Thatcher monster). Varty, Anne. “The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 641-58. 651 |
| Textual Features | Harriet Smythies | Towards the end of this poem about the Crimean War, HS
calls on the women of England. She regards them as formed with gentle hands / To minister to suffering, Smythies, Harriet. Sebastopol. 19 |
| Textual Features | Maureen Duffy | While the present-day plot produces a series of surreal confrontations, it is punctuated by a string of glimpses into the past. These begin when Swanscombe Man (the prehistoric human whose bones are the earliest evidence... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
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