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
AA
'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.
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...
Cultural formation
Jessie Boucherett
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
Mary Collier
MC
writes, No Learning ever was bestow'd on me; / My Life was always spent in Drudgery.
Collier, Mary et al. “The Woman’s Labour”. The Thresher’s Labour and The Woman’s Labour, edited by Edward Palmer Thompson et al., Merlin.
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But she learned to read very early, and continued learning into adult life. She later listed her...
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
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...
Friends, Associates
Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Margaret Fell
He was descended from the family of the Protestant writer and martyr Anne Askew
.
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...
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.
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—on the French Count d'Almaile's discovery of a female skeleton in her coffin...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.