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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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Norah Lofts | The house, Merravay, is seen playing a crucial role in the lives of a series of protagonists named in the chapter titles. They include the apprentice, the witch, the matriarch, the governess, ending after the... |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Elinor James | She defends the reputation of Queen Elizabeth
, mentions John Dryden
's dismissal of her in his preface to The Hind and the Panther (published this year) as anti-Catholic, but not one who merits an... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Deverell | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Despite her subject, EOB
refrains from demonizing Queen Elizabeth
. She goes into great detail about the cultural milieu in which Mary grew up (the sixteenth-century French court) and uses unpublished letters to add depth... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elinor James | EJ
here brings together her unfailing concern for the Church of England
with homage to Elizabeth
, who presided over the church's infancy. She also defends the memory of Charles I
, with a threatening... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Dowriche | Critic Elaine V. Beilin
discerns the influence on AD
's text of John Foxe
's Actes and Monuments, 1563. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 172 |
Timeline
1582: Thomas Bentley edited The Monument of Matrones,...
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1582
Thomas Bentley
edited The Monument of Matrones, an important anthology containing writings by women, mostly religious.
13 July 1584: A reconnaissance expedition sent by Sir Walter...
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13 July 1584
A reconnaissance expedition sent by Sir Walter Ralegh or Raleigh
landed in North America, in what became the colony of Virginia. The next summer Ralegh, having received a patent or royal permission as a colonist...
Between late 1584 and early 1585: Francis Bacon wrote his Letter of Advice...
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Between late 1584 and early 1585
Francis Bacon
wrote his Letter of Advice to Queen Elizabeth.
20-21 September 1586: Anthony Babington and six other Roman Catholics...
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20-21 September 1586
Anthony Babington
and six other Roman Catholics
were executed for high treason (plotting to murder Queen Elizabeth
with the intention of putting Mary, Queen of Scots
, on the throne).
8 February 1587: Mary Queen of Scots was executed at Fotheringay...
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8 February 1587
Mary Queen of Scots
was executed at Fotheringay Castle in England.
1588: Elizabeth I licensed a company for trading...
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1588
Elizabeth I
licensed a company for trading to Africa.
26 July 1588: Queen Elizabeth granted a patent or royal...
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26 July 1588
Queen Elizabeth
granted a patent or royal licence for the first system of real shoirthand, invented by the writing-master Peter Bales
and by Timothy Bright
.
23 January 1590: Edmund Spenser dated (using the old-style...
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23 January 1590
Edmund Spenser
dated (using the old-style reckoning of 1589) his letter to Sir Walter Raleghexpounding his whole intention in the first three books of The Faerie Queene, which was published soon afterwards.
1591: Calligrapher Esther Inglis presented one...
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1591
Calligrapher Esther Inglis
presented one of her earliest works, a verse Discours de la foi, to Queen Elizabeth I
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
3 March 1592: Elizabeth I granted the founding charter...
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3 March 1592
Elizabeth I
granted the founding charter for Trinity College, Dublin.
7 June 1594: Dr Roderigo Lopez, a Portuguese Jew who had...
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7 June 1594
Dr Roderigo Lopez
, a Portuguese Jew who had lived thirty-five years in England, most of them at the head of the medical profession, was executed for his alleged part in a plot to...
19 November 1594: Edmund Spenser's Amoretti (sonnets) and Epithalamium...
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19 November 1594
March 1599: Queen Elizabeth sent her young favourite...
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March 1599
Queen Elizabeth
sent her young favourite the Earl of Essex
to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant with a large army to crush Tyrone
's Rebellion.
14 April 1599: Sir John Davies registered with the Stationers'...
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14 April 1599
Sir John Davies
registered with the Stationers' Company
the first of the two well-known works he published this year, essays entitled NosceTeipsum (Know Thyself).
7 February 1601: Followers of the Earl of Essex attended a...
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7 February 1601
Followers of the Earl of Essex
attended a play at the Globe Theatre, the day before rising against Queen Elizabeth
: this has been taken, probably wrongly, to demonstrate the theatre's political power.
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