Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Queen Mary I
Standard Name: Mary I, Queen
Used Form: Mary Tudor
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Bacon | Her husband had six surviving children already. AB
had two daughters (who died young) before her two sons. In August 1557 she was hoping that her daughter Susan might get over her recurring fits of... |
| politics | Anne Bacon | In spite of her Puritan convictions AB
pledged her allegiance without delay to the Catholic Queen Mary
and was later a gentlewoman of the privy chamber. She thus benefited the male members of her family... |
| Occupation | Mary Basset | Mary Tudor
, dedicatee of MB
's translation from Eusebius, made Basset one of her chamber gentlewomen at Court. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Dedications | Mary Basset | MB
, as Mary Clarcke, translated the first five books of the Ecclesiastical History written in Greek by Eusebius
. She dedicated a handwritten presentation copy to Mary Tudor
before the latter became queen. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Basset | MB
's second husband had at the time of their marriage already been imprisoned in the Tower of London; upon Mary Tudor
's accession, James Basset travelled on diplomatic missions between Mary and Philip of Spain |
| Publishing | Mary Basset | Rastell, a nephew of More, was Basset's cousin. The titles are confusing here. Rastell's edition is sometimes called The English Works of Sir Thomas More, which is the title of a facsimile published in... |
| Textual Production | Anna Eliza Bray | AEB
published her third novel, and her second that year, The Protestant: A Tale of the Reign of Queen Mary, in three volumes. Burstein, Miriam Elizabeth. “Reviving the Reformation: Victorian women writers and the Protestant historical novel”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 12 , No. 1, pp. 73-83. 75n3 Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 51 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Literary Setting | Anna Eliza Bray | The novel is set near Canterbury in a village called Wellminster during the reign of Queen Mary
. It details the lives of a persecuted Protestant family. Bray, Anna Eliza. The Novels and Romances of Anna Eliza Bray. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 3:1 Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 52 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Caesar | His great-great-father, Cesare Adelmare
, had migrated from Italy to England and become physician to Mary Tudor
and Elizabeth I
. Sedgwick, Romney, editor. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1715-1754. http://www.histparl.ac.uk/about/publications/1715-1754. Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741) |
| 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/. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | A biographical lecture on Queen Elizabeth
(originally addressed to Working Women's College
students) is also reprinted. The lecture begins: Queen Elizabeth, when first she saw the light of day, was a great disappointment. She was... |
| Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | Princess Elizabeth (later QEI
) wrote what historian Patrick Collinson regards as the most important letter of her life (for political, not literary reasons): a declaration of innocent loyalty to her sister
. Collinson, Patrick. “Little Bastard”. London Review of Books, pp. 17-18. 18 Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press. 43-4 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Elizabeth I | Elizabeth's elder half-sister, Mary Tudor
, was estranged from her by loyalty to her mother (Catherine of Aragon
, whom Elizabeth's mother had supplanted) and by her fervent Catholicism. The gap narrowed slightly when... |
| politics | Queen Elizabeth I | Elizabeth's youth was lived in the shadow of national power politics. Her younger brother succeeded her father as king. The year she turned twenty he died, and Lady Jane Grey
, placed on the throne... |
| politics | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | Lady Tyrwhit and her husband continued to prosper through the reign of Queen Mary
. Susan M. Felch points out that long before she was a persecutor of Protestants, Mary had participated in the humanist... |
Timeline
1523: Juan Luis Vives of Valencia, while living...
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1523
Juan Luis Vives
of Valencia, while living in England, wrote Satellitium, a plan of studies for Princess Mary
(daughter of Henry VIII
).
After July 1553: An unknown person presented to Queen Mary...
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After July 1553
An unknown person presented to Queen Mary Tudor
the finely illuminated manuscript now known as the Queen Mary Psalter (Royal 2 B vii in the British Library
).
6 July 1553: The sixteen-year-old Edward VI died, producing...
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6 July 1553
The sixteen-year-old Edward VI
died, producing a succession crisis: for fear of rule by his Catholic
sister Mary
, Edward pronounced both his sisters to be bastards, and the crown passed (very briefly) to Lady Jane Grey
19 July 1553: Lady Jane Grey was deposed as queen, and...
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19 July 1553
June 1554: An eighteen-year-old servant, Elizabeth Croft,...
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June 1554
An eighteen-year-old servant, Elizabeth Croft
, confessed in front of a crowd gathered at St Paul's Cross in London that she had taken part in a hoax, playing a supernatural voice that spoke from a...
July 1554: One year after succeeding to the throne,...
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July 1554
One year after succeeding to the throne, Mary Tudor
married Philip of Spain
, thereby strengthening the hand of others who wished, as she did, to re-Catholicize England.
1555: Bridewell Prison, the first house of correction...
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1555
Bridewell Prison
, the first house of correction for vagrants and beggars, was established in the same building as the recently-founded Bridewell Royal Hospital
a residence for apprentices during their training.
February 1555: The law was changed to permit burning alive...
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February 1555
The law was changed to permit burning alive for heresy: during the rest of Mary I
's reign at least 274 persons were burned in England for their Protestant belief.
21 March 1556: Thomas Cranmer was burned alive for heresy...
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21 March 1556
Thomas Cranmer
was burned alive for heresy at Oxford, after withdrawing the recantation he had formerly made under threat of such a death: this was one of the most famous Protestant martyrdoms under Mary Tudor
.
4 May 1557: The Royal Charter of the Stationers' Company...
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4 May 1557
The Royal Charter of the Stationers' Company
of London, granted by Mary Tudor
, restricted the privilege of book-production to its limited membership.
17 November 1558: Queen Mary I died, and Elizabeth I assumed...
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17 November 1558
1560: The complete Geneva Bible appeared, translated...
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1560
The complete GenevaBible appeared, translated by English Protestant exiles from the reign of Mary
: the first accessible or mass-circulation edition of the Bible in English, with small format and roman (not gothic) print.
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.
29 December 1709: Richard Steele's reference in The Tatler...
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29 December 1709
Richard Steele
's reference in The Tatler to the new fashion of hoop petticoats marked the establishment of the mode in England or at least in London.
December 1965: Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with...
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December 1965
Actress Peggy Ashcroft
toured Norway with a show of her own devising, Words on Women and Some Women's Words, originally written for performance at London University
.
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