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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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| 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 | |
| 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 | 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 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eglinton Wallace | She recommends the study of history, and her moral exhortation leans heavily on anecdotal, historical examples. (She also uses quotations from her own unpublished tragedy.) Wallace, Eglinton. Letter from Lady Wallace to Capt. William Wallace. J. Debrett. 62 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Green | This novel, a third-person narrative, opens arrestingly—It was a cold, and dreary evening, in the month of October 1548 Green, Sarah. The Royal Exile; or, Victims of Human Passions: An Historical Romance of the Sixteenth Century. J. J. Stockdale. 1: 1 |
| 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 | Enid Blyton | It was made of the same mix as Sunny Stories: a letter from the editor, nature notes, stories, strip cartoons, serials, puzzles and competitions, letters from child readers, and the organisation of fund-raising for... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sally Purcell | These poems dwell in SP
's familiar territory of icy waters, towers and forests, dreaming stones, desert saints, and mythological fauns and mermaids. March 1603 presents Queen Elizabeth
on her deathbed, with a sword by... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Jenkins | |
| Textual Production | Flora Annie Steel | FAS
's historical novel A Prince of Dreamers fictionalised the life of the Great Mughal Akbar
, contemporary of Queen Elizabeth I
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann. 132-3 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 353 (15 October 1908): 348 |
| Textual Production | Agnes Strickland | Both sisters were indefatigable researchers. They took as their motto Facts, not Opinions Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus. 62 |
Timeline
25 February 1601: The Earl of Essex was executed in the Tower...
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25 February 1601
The Earl of Essex
was executed in the Tower of London on the orders of Queen Elizabeth
; she was said to be much upset, but was deaf to all appeals for clemency.
23 March 1603: The English conquest of Ireland was completed...
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23 March 1603
The English conquest of Ireland was completed when Hugh O'Neill
submitted to the English forces there; he would not have done this had he known of the imminent death of Queen Elizabeth
.
24 March 1603: On Queen Elizabeth's death, James I (James...
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24 March 1603
On Queen Elizabeth
's death, James I
(James VI of Scotland) assumed the throne.
1611: John Speed published his History of Great...
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1611
John Speed
published his History of Great Britaine, an early attempt at national history as continuous narrative; it is remembered in part for the maps, by Christopher Saxton
and others, in its early sections.
Before 29 June 1613: Henry VIII, by Shakespeare (probably with...
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Before 29 June 1613
Henry VIII, by Shakespeare
(probably with the collaboration of Fletcher
), had its first performance: when it was acted on this date, a fire broke out which destroyed the Globe Theatre
.
By 8 June 1615: Antiquary and historian William Camden anonymously...
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By 8 June 1615
Antiquary and historian William Camden
anonymously published the first part of his Annales, a Latin history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth
.
1631: John Taylor published The Needles Excellency:...
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1631
John Taylor
published The Needles Excellency: A New Booke wherin are divers Admirable Workes wrought with the Needle, which includes (along with hints on embroidery) praise of great ladies.
17 March 1677: Nathaniel Lee's tragedy The Rival Queens...
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17 March 1677
Nathaniel Lee
's tragedyThe Rival Queens opened on stage.
1684: John Banks's tragedy The Island Queens (which...
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1684
John Banks
's tragedy The Island Queens (which featured Mary Queen of Scots
as heroine and Elizabeth I
as villain) was defiantly published after having been banned from the stage.
By September 1735: Merlin's Cave at Richmond in Surrey, brainchild...
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By September 1735
Merlin's Cave at Richmond in Surrey, brainchild of Queen Caroline
, was opened to the public.
By September 1735: The gardens of Lord Cobham at Stowe in Buckinghamshire...
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By September 1735
The gardens of Lord Cobham
at Stowe in Buckinghamshire were complete enough to be written up in The Daily Gazetteer.
By October 1754: Thomas Birch published his Memoirs of the...
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By October 1754
Thomas Birch
published his Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.
June 1793: An enterprising printer and freemason, John...
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June 1793
An enterprising printer and freemason, John Wharlton Bunney
, put out the first number of The Free-Mason's Magazine, or General and Complete Library.
1859: Frances Margaret Taylor (as the Authoress...
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1859
Frances Margaret Taylor
(as the Authoress of Eastern Hospitals and English Nurses) published her historicalnovelTyborne, and 'who went thither in the days of Queen Elizabeth'.
1876: By this date, women healers were so popular...
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1876
By this date, women healers were so popular among spiritualists that one consultation often cost as much as a guinea.
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