| Textual Production |
Elizabeth Montagu |
EM
entertained the idea of writing about Elizabeth I
: perhaps a comparison between her and Catherine de Medici
. She had long taken an interest in Elizabeth as a masculine woman exercising power: had...
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| Theme or Topic Treated in Text |
Mary Seymour Montague |
The third epistle performs the conventional act of praising historical women: the monarchs Elizabeth I
and Catherine the Great
of Russia for their exercise of power, the French scholar Anne Dacier
, and eleven British...
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| Theme or Topic Treated in Text |
Mary More |
MM
believes that she is saying something new and not commonly known when she argues that male power over women has grown gradually by unjust laws. She sets out by quoting from and commenting on...
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| Textual Production |
Jan Morris |
More than a decade later, in 1978, JM
followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less...
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| Theme or Topic Treated in Text |
Judith Sargent Murray |
She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism...
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| Occupation |
E. Nesbit |
A few years later she believed, as if she had entered into one of her own fantasies for children, that she had found out the Shakespeare cipher, which comes out as definitely as the result...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| Theme or Topic Treated in Text |
Ruth Padel |
The style of these poems, said one reviewer, is vintage RP
: dynamic, baroque and jam-packed full of neocultural reference. Padel often writes about animals (sometimes in exotic wild places, often wild animals in captivity)...
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| 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...
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| politics |
Katherine Parr |
KP
supervised the education, encouraged the writing, and tried to form the minds of her new batch of step-children: Mary
, Elizabeth
, and Edward
. ( Susan E. James
in the Oxford Dictionary of...
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| Publishing |
Katherine Parr |
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| 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...
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| Textual Production |
Mrs F. C. Patrick |
Historically, Anthony Babington
, a member of a wealthy Catholic family in Derbyshire, maintained a correspondence with Mary, Queen of Scots
, during her imprisonment. In summer 1586 he informed her that he and a...
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| Textual Production |
Jean Plaidy |
The next year, 1955, saw the publication of JP
's Tudor novel Gay Lord Robert, about Elizabeth I
and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
(whose title was initially Lord Robert, since he was...
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