Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Anne Askew
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Standard Name: Askew, Anne
Birth Name: Anne Askew
Married Name: Anne Kyme
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's fame as a Prostestant martyr was in origin dependent on her own testimony. Her accounts of her legal trials in 1545 and 1546, with torture—part debate, part autobiography, part reporting—are unique texts. Her two extant poems also deserve to be better known.
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Presumably white, JB
was born into a propertied Protestant family. The family estate at Willingham, Lincolnshire, had been passed down from Mathew Boucherett
, a Frenchman who emigrated to England in 1644. Helen Blackburn
Education
Grace, Lady Mildmay
Lady Sharington employed a governess named Hamblyn for her daughters, who was a niece of her husband. Mrs Hamblyn took great pains with the character and moral training of her charges, and taught Grace some...
Education
Mary Collier
MC
writes, No Learning ever was bestow'd on me; / My Life was always spent in Drudgery.
Collier, Mary, Stephen Duck, and Mary Collier. “The Woman’s Labour”. The Thresher’s Labour and The Woman’s Labour, edited by Edward Palmer Thompson, Marian Sugden, Edward Palmer Thompson, and Marian Sugden, Merlin, 1989.
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But she learned to read very early, and continued learning into adult life. She later listed her...
Family and Intimate relationships
Margaret Fell
He was descended from the family of the Protestant writer and martyr Anne Askew
.
Family and Intimate relationships
Lucy Hutton
The couple had two sons, one of whom (named William after his father) was still alive in 1811. The elder William Hutton was a remarkable man, who like his wife expressed in writing his original...
Friends, Associates
Katherine Parr
In Lincolnshire KP
was near the home of the child Anne Askew
, whom she may well have met during these years and to whom she seems to have passed on the teaching of Vives
.
Although Lady Tyrwhit
was a cousin by marriage of Katherine Parr
, their shared allegiance to the reformed religion was probably the key to their relationship. The Protestant historian John Foxe
wrote that Elizabeth Tyrwhit...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit
Tyrwhit's collection of prayers is thought to date from the mid 1550s, and tradition suggests that it was written for the future Queen Elizabeth I
during her imprisonment by her sister Queen Mary
, but...
Literary responses
Margery Kempe
The year 2018 was a high point in MK
studies, with the first academic conference devoted to her, and the establishment of the Margery Kempe Society
. Diane Watt
summarized the growth of her reputation...
Occupation
Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit
Elizabeth Tyrwhit
's life at Court took a different turn after Katherine Parr
's marriage to Henry VIII
(on 12 July 1543). She participated with the queen and a whole group of court ladies in...
politics
Katherine Parr
The day after Anne Askew
was executed, Henry
agreed at KP
's persuasion to halt the religious persecutions: two men in the Tower under the same Act were released and no more were burned.
For women to take it upon themselves to make their own study of Holy Scripture was an act of ideological resistance. The arrest and first trial of Anne Askew
in March 1545 turned the Queen's...
politics
Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit
Lady Tyrwhit's fervent Protestantism was, at this date, a highly politicized position. She and her group of court ladies were hounded by highly-placed religious traditionalists, enemies of Katherine Parr
, since the queen was well...
Textual Features
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
Pre-eminent among the Protestant heroines treated by Foxe is Anne Askew
, whose own texts he includes. Anna Eliza Bray
had published a novel inspired by Foxe in 1828.
Timeline
1582
Thomas Bentley
edited The Monument of Matrones, an important anthology containing writings by women, mostly religious.
1732
A printer in Smithfield, London, began issuing in instalments a new, revised edition of Foxe
's Book of Martyrs.
Texts
Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Askew, Anne. The Examinations of Anne Askew. Editor Beilin, Elaine V., Oxford University Press, 1996.
Askew, Anne. The First Examinacyon of Anne Askewe. Editor Bale, John, D. van der Straten. http://BL copy C.21.a.4 reproduced on University Microfilms Reel 21., http://BL copy C.21.a.4 reproduced on University Microfilms Reel 21.
Askew, Anne. The Lattre Examinacyon of Anne Askewe. Editor Bale, John, D. van der Straten. http://BL copy C.21.a.4 reproduced on University Microfilms Reel 21., http://BL copy C.21.a.4 reproduced on University Microfilms Reel 21.