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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 descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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| Textual Features | Amelia Opie | Both in an Address to the Editor and in a series of explanatory footnotes, AO
positions herself on the one hand as a historian with a proper regard for available evidence, and on the other... |
| Textual Features | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
produces a treatise rather than a polemic, using a studied moderation of tone. She deploys an artful range of styles and her material is drawn from biology, history, sociology, economics, and in a large... |
| Textual Features | Elinor James | James's strong admonitory style has much in common with that of religious prophets. She is equally ready to cross swords with Quakers and Dissenters on the one hand and Catholics on the other, to venerate... |
| Textual Features | Catharine Macaulay | The first two volumes carried the story from Queen Elizabeth
's death to 1641. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 26 |
| Textual Features | Anne Grant | Leaving these images of militarism and turning back to Britain with Princess Charlotte
in mind, AGcast[s] a forward glance to hope again / Protracted blessings in a female reign, Grant, Anne. Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. Ballantyne. 48 |
| Textual Features | Sally Purcell | On a Cenotaph quotes a phrase from Baudelaire
's poem Lesbos: the shocking juxtaposition of a dead body with adoration in le cadavre adoré di Sapho
. Though SP
supplied notes to some things... |
| Textual Features | Charlotte Smith | In this book the ancient and imposing but crumbling manor house is an emblem of English society as a whole: a trope which was to be popular with later novelists. The downtrodden orphan heroine, Monimia... |
| Textual Features | Hilary Mantel | She is interested in hidden history, in apparently negligible people or objects whose historical significance is apparent only with hindsight, like the ginger-haired baby who would one day be known as Queen Elizabeth
or the... |
| Textual Features | Liz Lochhead | Mary makes Lochhead's usual exuberant use of Scottish English. LL
based Queen Elizabeth
's character on Margaret Thatcher
(the Thatcher monster). Varty, Anne. “The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 641-58. 651 |
| Textual Features | Harriet Smythies | Towards the end of this poem about the Crimean War, HS
calls on the women of England. She regards them as formed with gentle hands / To minister to suffering, Smythies, Harriet. Sebastopol. 19 |
| Textual Features | Maureen Duffy | While the present-day plot produces a series of surreal confrontations, it is punctuated by a string of glimpses into the past. These begin when Swanscombe Man (the prehistoric human whose bones are the earliest evidence... |
| 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 | Mrs F. C. Patrick | Historically, Anthony Babington
, a member of a wealthy Catholic family in Derbyshire, maintained a correspondence with Mary, Queen of Scots
, during her imprisonment. In summer 1586 he informed her that he and a... |
| Textual Production | Anne Locke | In the year of her second marriage AL
(probably by now Anne Dering) addressed a four-line Latin poem to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
, clearly as a channel to the queen
. Felch, Susan M., and Anne Locke. “Introduction”. Collected Works, edited by Susan M. Felch and Susan M. Felch, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in conjunction with the Renaissance English Text Society, p. i - xc. lviii-lix Felch, Susan M. “’Noble Gentlewomen famous for their learning’: The London Circle of Anne Vaughan Lock”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, Vol. 16 , No. 2, pp. 14-19. 16 |
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