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.
Full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, by the school of Nicholas Hilliard, 1590. Behind her two hovering angels prepare to crown her. She wears formal and elaborate clothes: tight blonde curls, a ruff, a stiff bodice, petticoat and over-skirt in intricate brocade patterns, deep lace cuffs, strings of pearls and several rings. A lengthy Latin inscription calls her an invincible virgin, mistress of all sciences, founder of Jesus College, Oxford, where the painting hangs.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Norah Lofts
NL published her first historical fiction: Here Was a Man: A Romantic History of Sir Walter , His Voyages, His Discoveries, and His Queen.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Ford Madox Ford
In this piece FMF examines patterns in monarchical history to argue that it is profitable that a woman should occupy the highest place of the State.
Ford, Ford Madox, and Graham Greene. The Ford Madox Ford Reader. Editor Stang, Sondra J., Carcanet.
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(The implication is that if a woman can...
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...
Textual Production Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy
MCA made what seems to be her first appearance in English, with The Novels of Elizabeth Queen of England , Containing the history of Queen Ann of Bullen (which represented a part of her Nouvelles...
Textual Production Elizabeth Barrett Browning
For a young woman who had never attended university (as she of course could not at this time) to offer a translation from a classical language was both courageous and confident.
It was a long...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Scott
MS 's style is controlled but vigorous. She writes with fervour, whether laying out her Protestant reading of history (Queen Elizabeth came to the throne when Long, hid beneath the specious mask of zeal...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Melesina Trench
The title poem of Ellen comes from a story lately reported by newspapers. Other pieces (several of them ballads) deal with historical figures like Queen Elizabeth , Cardinal Wolsey , an anonymous monk, and the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Monica Furlong
She presents her subject as one of the nation's great institutions and as her own spiritual home. She relates its history from the beginnings, in the entwined careers of Thomas Cranmer , Mary Tudor ...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Brownell Jameson
Her subjects reach back to the semi-legendary such as Semiramis and Cleopatra . ABJ includes from England Queen Elizabeth and Queen Anne and from Europe Maria Theresa and Catherine the Great .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sophia Lee
Both sisters become rivals in love to Queen Elizabeth (following the popular account of romantic interest in Elizabeth's life). Matilda loves, and bears a daughter by, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester . Lee's account of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catharine Macaulay
CM sought to memorialise the men whose struggles had secured the reputation of England as a nation of liberty at the time of the Civil War, while believing that oppression in England had begun when...
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)...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Maria Callcott
MC opens her preface with a kind of apology for not being a mother herself. Her history is attentive to women, both public and private. Of her three chapters on Queen Elizabeth , she says,...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Deverell
In a prologue MD jokes about her own daring to judge Queen Elizabeth. Her language is formal and stilted, but she has a strong dramatic grasp of the complex and shifting feelings of Mary and...

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