Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University.
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Residence | Susan Tweedsmuir | As a child Susan Grosvenor lived with her parents and sister at 30 Upper Grosvenor Street—but only in winter, for summers were spent with the extended family at her grandparents' country estate, Moor Park... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's nephew George Tollet
published, with her name, a new, enlarged edition of her work: Poems on Several Occasions. With Anne Boleyn
to Henry VIII
. An Epistle. Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University. 23 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's various poems about marriage make all the usual points deployed by those writers who set themselves against the current legal drawbacks of marriage for women. She translated Latin epigrams attributed to two famous... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Strickland | The Athenæum was quite mocking about the quality of the history, finding it deficient in the critical evaluation and referencing of sources, and claiming to have derived entertainment but not instruction from the first volume... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Roper | The family of Thomas More
were merchants and lawyers of London's bourgeois ruling class: Thomas duly became a lawyer and out of personal passion became a scholar of the new humanist learning. He married again... |
politics | Margaret Roper | Thomas More
's opposition to Henry VIII
's projected marriage to Anne Boleyn
was unshakable. On 17 April 1534 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London as a political offender, having refused on 12... |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | In the novel Murder Most Royal, JP
viewed Henry VIII
's serial marriages through the eyes of two of his wives (both executed at his command), Anne Boleyn
and Catherine (sometimes Katherine) Howard
... |
Performance of text | Hilary Mantel | HM
gave a lecture at the British Museum
in a series organized by the London Review of Books, as Undressing Anne Boleyn (printed in the same journal on 21 February as Royal Bodies). Mantel, Hilary. “Royal Bodies”. London Review of Books, Vol. 35 , No. 4, pp. 3-7. |
Textual Features | Hilary Mantel | This novel begins as Henry VIII
is already thinking about marrying Jane Seymour
, and ends at a moment when it seems that Cromwell is triumphant over his enemies (including his former ally Anne Boleyn |
Publishing | Hilary Mantel | On 12 May 2012HM
published in The Guardian an article about Anne Boleyn
. Mantel, Hilary. “’I have only a little neck’”. The Guardian, pp. Review 2 - 4. Review 2-4 |
Performance of text | Claire Luckham | The Seduction of Anne Boleyn, another historical play by CL
, was first presented at Southampton's Nuffield Theatre
. Luckham, Claire. Plays. Oberon. 128 |
Author summary | Claire Luckham | Claire Luckham's career as a playwright was launched in 1976, when the feminist theatre group Monstrous Regiment
selected Scum (a play on which she and her husband collaborated) to open their first season. Her plays... |
Textual Production | Norah Lofts | NL
published another historical work, The Concubine: A Novel Based Upon the Life of Anne Boleyn
, Henry VIII
's Second Wife. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 80 |
Textual Production | Norah Lofts | She followed this with further historical studies. After observing everyday conditions in Domestic Life in England, 1976, she turned to the highest level of society in Queens of Britain, 1977. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 80 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Cultural formation | Rose Hickman | She belonged to the London trading class, which was rising rapidly in wealth and influence. Life at this date was hazardous, however. Hers was shaped by her parents' belief in the new reformed religion, and... |
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