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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Elizabeth Woodville
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Woodville, Elizabeth
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Cicely Hamilton
The pageant required more than fifty actresses, only three of whom had speaking parts, to portray famous women from history (not all of them remembered today). In the initial, Scala production, the only speaking role...
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15 April 1448
Margaret of Anjou
(wife of
Henry VI
) founded
Queen's College, Cambridge
; in March 1465
Elizabeth Woodville
(wife of
Edward IV
) became its patroness and
foundress
: hence the present position of the apostrophe.