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.
This book makes some pretence of being an early text, though the way that Nicholas Moldwarp is named and introduced suggests the superior eye of posterity. Manning once again imitates not only early spelling, but...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Judith Sargent Murray
She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism...
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Mary Matilda Betham
MMB
also has strong coverage of writers, scholars, and activists, like Anne Askew
, Mary Astell
(whose uncle she credits with having generously tutored her), and Ann Bacon
. She seems to have excluded the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
Written specifically for use in Sunday Schools, it relates the sufferings of Protestant Martyrs such as Anne Askew
, Katherine Hut
, and Elizabeth Thackvel
. The sufferings of Anne Askew (here seen as martyr...
Textual Production
Anne Manning
The full title of the work is The Lincolnshire Tragedy—Passages in the Life of The Faire Gospeller, Mistress Anne Askew
. Recounted by ye unworthie Pen of Nicholas Moldwarp, B.A. and now first set forth...
Textual Production
Katherine Parr
KP
's Lamentacion of a Sinner, in manuscript, was brought to the attention of Bishop Gardiner
(interrogator of Anne Askew
), who thought it abominable.
Since this year, 2007, CR
has been picking a Poem of the Week for the Guardian newspaper, which prints the poem along with her commentary and analysis. Rumens like to pay attention to context and...
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.
Textual Features
Germaine Greer
The selection of poets is highly informed. It reaches back in time before GG
's anthology Kissing the Rod, to Anne Askew
and Isabella Whitney
, and forward to Carol Ann Duffy
and Margaret Atwood
Textual Features
Sarah Green
This novel, a third-person narrative, opens arrestingly—It was a cold, and dreary evening, in the month of October 1548
Green, Sarah. The Royal Exile; or, Victims of Human Passions: An Historical Romance of the Sixteenth Century. J. J. Stockdale.
1: 1
—on the French Count d'Almaile's discovery of a female skeleton in her coffin...
Textual Features
Jean Ingelow
The poems in this collection include Kismet, Lovers at the Lake Side, and Nature, for Nature's Sake. Several of the poems explore more dark and serious matters. The Maid-Martyr, for example...
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...
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...
Timeline
1582: Thomas Bentley edited The Monument of Matrones,...
Women writers item
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...
Building item
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.
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.