Laroche, Rebecca. “Elizabeth Melville and Her Friends: Seeing ‘Ane Godlie Dreame’ through Political Lenses”. CLIO, Vol.
34
, No. 3, pp. 277-95. 287
King James I of England and VI of Scotland
Standard Name: James I of England and VI of Scotland, King
Used Form: King James the First
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Melvill | EM
is now identified as the M. M. (for Mistress Melville) listed on the title-page as author of Ane Godlie Dreame, Compylit in Scottish Meter, a 60-stanza dream-vision poem printed at Edinburgh this... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Melvill | John Welsh
was imprisoned in Blackness Castle (across the River Forth from Rosyth) in connection with the abortive Church of Scotland
General Assembly at Aberdeen. EM
wrote for him in prison A Sonnet Sent... |
| Author summary | Elizabeth Melvill | EM
was a staunch Scottish Presbyterian
whose surviving poems and letters almost all relate to the efforts of James the Sixth and First
to impose episcopacy and other changes on the Kirk. Their religious content... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Melvill | EM
's father was Sir James Melvill or Melville
of Halhill, Collessie, near Auchtermuchty in Fife, Scotland. Halhill was the site of a tower. Sir James's family was famous for loyalty to the... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Melvill | The title-page this time shows the royal arms. This undated edition is associated by Rebecca Laroche
with the Hampton Court Conference of Anglican
bishops at which James I
pronounced No Bishop, no King |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Carola Oman | She sent her first sonnets to magazines under the name of C. Oman, and the rejection slips came in addressed to her father. There was not much Women's Lib. in my early days. Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton. 89 |
| Reception | Carola Oman | After the performance of CO
's The Tragedy of King James I (apparently a different juvenile play), senior members of the cast gave her a beautifully-set typescript of the text as a souvenir. Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton. 145-9 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Carola Oman | CO
first relates how Elizabeth's family migrated south from Edinburgh when her father became James I
of England as well as James VI of Scotland. Her story takes in Elizabeth's wedding at Whitehall to... |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | Jean Plaidy
opened by this name a Stuart series with The Murder in the Tower, a historical novel on the affair of Frances Howard, Countess of Essex and later of Somerset
, with Robert Carr |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Hester Pulter | Hester's father, James Ley
, was a lawyer (in time a judge) who sat for many years as Member of Parliament for Westbury (under Queen Elizabeth, James I and Charles I). At the time of... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vita Sackville-West | The whole of the chapter dealing with Knole House in the reign of James I
is taken up with a vivid account of Lady Anne Clifford
, who appealed to VSW
as a fellow-exile, though... |
| politics | Lady Arbella Stuart | LAS
came from Derbyshire to the court at London, enjoying new freedom under the new monarch, James I
. Stuart, Lady Arbella. “Introduction and Textual Introduction”. The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart, edited by Sara Jayne Steen et al., Oxford University Press, pp. 1-113. 44-5 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Arbella Stuart | LAS
gave James I
an ultimatum: either he should find her a husband, or she would find one herself. Stuart, Lady Arbella. “Introduction and Textual Introduction”. The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart, edited by Sara Jayne Steen et al., Oxford University Press, pp. 1-113. 63 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Arbella Stuart | LAS
and William Seymour
were married against the King
's express command, at 4 a.m. in her lodgings in Greenwich Palace near London. Stuart, Lady Arbella. “Introduction and Textual Introduction”. The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart, edited by Sara Jayne Steen et al., Oxford University Press, pp. 1-113. 65 |
| Textual Production | Lady Arbella Stuart | The latest surviving letter-writing by LAS
consists of several overlapping drafts of a petition she addressed to James I
, begging him not to believe malicious rumours against her. Stuart, Lady Arbella. The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart. Editor Steen, Sara Jayne, Oxford University Press. 263-6 |
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