King James I of England and VI of Scotland

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 (though...

An anecdote relates how King James , on having the author presented to him as a prodigy with an account of her great learning, responded in the most banal way possible: But can she spin...

CM published, with her name, the first volume of her History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line—that is, the Hanoverian monarchs.

CM published volume three of her History of England, From the Accession of James I, with a subtitle that reads to the Elevation of the House of Hanover.

It was printed for the author, by J. Nourse . CM 's primary publisher for the first four volumes was Thomas Cadell . When she offered to sell him the entire copyright of the still...

The house, Merravay, is seen playing a crucial role in the lives of a series of protagonists named in the chapter titles. They include the apprentice, the witch, the matriarch, the governess, ending after the...

It was probably published soon afterwards, though the title-page says 1611. Handsome copies of the title-poem without all of its accompanying or supporting poems were given as gifts to Prince Henry (eldest son of James I

LH 's father, Sir Allen Apsley, was Lieutenant of the Tower of London under James I . Lucy wrote that he and her mother cared for the prisoners there as if they were their children...