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
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...
politics Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit
Elizabeth Tyrwhit and her husband were given custody for a few months of Princess, later Queen, Elizabeth , replacing her governess Katherine Astley —who, however, was then reinstated.
Tyrwhit, Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers, edited by Susan M. Felch, Ashgate, 2008, pp. 1-51.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Occupation Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit
Elizabeth Tyrwhit 's life at Court took a different turn after Katherine Parr 's marriage to Henry VIII (on 12 July 1543). She participated with the queen and a whole group of court ladies in...
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...
Occupation Anne Bacon
Some years after Elizabeth came to the throne, AB entertained the queen at Gorhambury. She was also an active patron of young Puritan clergymen and a protector of those whose radical beliefs made them suspect...
Occupation Frances Wright
FW delivered what was said to be the first public address by a woman on a public occasion before a large mixed audience
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
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in New Harmony, Indiana.
That is, the first public address...
Occupation Lady Anne Clifford
Part of LAC 's growing up took place at Elizabeth 's court. While being groomed for a career there, she say that she was much beloved by that Renowned Queene Elizabeth.
qtd. in
Holmes, Martin. Proud Northern Lady: Lady Anne Clifford, 1590-1676. Phillimore, 1975.
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Moreover, she notes,...
Material Conditions of Writing Violet Trefusis
Around 1924, when VT was attending classes at the Sorbonne , she wrote a play (unpublished and probably unperformed) about Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I titled Les soeurs ennemies.
Sharpe, Henrietta. A Solitary Woman: A Life of Violet Trefusis. Constable, 1981.
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Literary Setting Sophia Lee
An Advertisement claims that The Recess is a version, in modernised English, of a manuscript memoir from the reign of Elizabeth I . It breaks new ground for the English novel in various ways: it...
Literary Setting Georgiana Fullerton
Constance Sherwood is represented as the autobiography of its eponymous protagonist, an English gentlewoman living during the reign of Queen Elizabeth . A devout Roman Catholic, Constance reports the persecutions of the English Reformation, although...
Literary Setting Elizabeth Goudge
Towers in the Mist, the second book in this main series, is set in a different cathedral city, Oxford (more precisely in Christ Church ), during the reign of Elizabeth I , and the...
Literary Setting J. S. Anna Liddiard
The first poem, Kenilworth Castle. A Masque, was published separately at both Dublin and London in 1815 (after the battle of Waterloo put a new face on English patriotism), and is again dedicated to...
Literary Setting Virginia Woolf
The protagonist of Orlando notoriously begins as a sixteen-year-old romantic boy in the attic of a palatial great house in the late sixteenth century, practising sword-thrusts at the shrunken head of a Moor killed by...
Literary Setting Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw
Each title-page proclaims: If the cap fits, wear it—perhaps acknowledging the à clef element of the story.
Bradshaw, Mary Ann Cavendish. Memoirs of Maria, Countess d’Alva. William Miller, 1808, 2 vols.
1: title-page
This melodramatic, romantic farrago, confused in chronology and inflated in style, is set during the...
Literary Setting Emma Robinson
This was set in the days when the Dutch Protestants in the Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium and part of northern France), led by William of Orange (that is, William the Silent, 1533-84), rebelled...

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