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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 (She also uses quotations from her own unpublished tragedy.)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goes into great detail about the cultural milieu in which Mary grew up (the sixteenth-century French court) and uses unpublished letters to add depth...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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Evelyn Waugh | Waugh emphasized that his book was popular, not scholarly. It opens with an account of Elizabeth
on her deathbed as an old perjured woman, dying without comfort, and reflects throughout the story its author's regret... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Josepha Hale | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Boyd | EB
endorses Haddock
's blockade of Spain. She opens on England's greatness in the days When Great Eliza
fill'd the British Throne; she praises Elizabeth for her decision not to marry Philip of Spain |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Harvey | The contents include descriptive and melancholy sonnets, satire, autobiography, and politics (including a poem on the horrors of slavery, addressed to William Wilberforce
, and another about the sorrow of a woman whose lover has... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | MLC
's occasions include the public and private. She opens with an ode on the recent death of the queen's only surviving child
, in which the speaker, unconventionally, rejects the consolation duly offered by... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Bradstreet | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Jenkins | The ten women here share varying degrees and varying combinations of sexual, political, or literary notoriety. Two of them—Elizabeth Inchbald
and Lady Blessington
—hold the status of professional authors. Two more—Becky Wells (whom... |
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Violet Fane | The play details the treasonous plot Babington spun to murder Queen Elizabeth
and have Catholic Mary Queen of Scots
assume the throne. Fredeman, William E., and Ira Bruce Nadel, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 35. Gale Research. 35: 77 |
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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