Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
This was translated by the young Queen Elizabeth
, whose version was printed at London in 1548 as A Godly Medytacyon of the Cristen Sowle. An electronic version of a nineteenth-century text is available...
Reception
Anne Locke
Sanford's work is an updating and revision of The Garden of Pleasure, his translation published in 1573 from the Italian of Ludovico Guicciardini
. His celebration of learned women of all nations and generations...
Reception
Anna Hume
AH
's vigorous heroic couplets were called the finest version of Petrarch before the twentieth century by George Watson
in his bibliography of Petrarch in English, 1967.
Watson, George. The English Petrarchans. Warburg Institute.
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(Watson noted a marked avoidance of direct...
Reception
Sophia Lee
The Recess was highly influential: in its basic technique of inserting fictive persons among actual historical ones, in its polarization of Elizabeth
and Mary
, and in its heavily sentimental tone. Writers directly influenced by...
Reception
Clemence Dane
The US version, first performed in New York on 1 January 1923, was cut. It received some favourable reviews, especially for the characters Anne Hathaway
and Queen Elizabeth
.
Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press.
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Residence
Anne Locke
AL
and her family left Geneva to return to London following the accession of the Protestant Elizabeth
in November 1558.
Morin-Parsons, Kel, and Anne Locke. “Preface, Introduction, Textual Note”. A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner, edited by Kel Morin-Parsons and Kel Morin-Parsons, North Waterloo Academic Press, pp. 9-40.
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Residence
Jean Plaidy
Many of the royal characters in her historical novels had visited this half-timbered house, which dates back to 1400 and performed the function of a lodging for pilgrims heading for Canterbury. The main doorway, in...
Residence
Barbara Cartland
Part of the appeal of Camfield Place for her was its storied history: an oak tree in the garden is said to mark the place where Elizabeth I
shot her first stag, and from 1867...
Textual Features
Katherine Chidley
The title exhorts him to begin the new yeare, with new fruits of love, first to God, and then to his brethren.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
The Introduction or Epistle, To the Godly Reader explains why she has taken...
Textual Features
Amelia B. Edwards
ABE
seizes the attention of her audience from her first paragraph with her claim that to the surprise of scholars, ancient Egyptian woman turns out to have been always free, respected, and in the full...
Textual Features
Mary Robinson
MR
writes as a friend to the Revolution, but enters with strong emotion into the personal situation of the queen
as the victim of scandal and prejudice. She cites Elizabeth I
and Cromwell
as examples...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Elstob
EE
's first publication consists of a fairly short essay with some poems to fill out the volume. She celebrates Scudéry as a Sappho
(one of Scudéry's strong female characters is Sapho) and as...
Textual Features
Mary Hays
Though occasionally sketchy (it gives Elizabeth Elstob
, for instance, four lines), this is a work of real research, from a consistently feminist point of view. MH
investigates the question of women in power with...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Elstob
EE
's preliminary list of names suggests considerable research work: it includes several ancient or Anglo-Saxon women as well as Mary Astell
, Anne Bacon
, Katherine Chidley
(as the pamphlet antagonist of Thomas Edwards
Textual Features
Elizabeth Elstob
EE
's dedication to Queen Anne
asserts her awareness of being a female pioneer. Another part of her paratext, the preface, defends women's learning and defies both those who set up for Censurers and those...
