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.
Photograph of a painting probably of Anne Askew, by Hans Eworth, 1560, inscribed "RATHER DEATHE / THEN FALSE OF FAYTHE." She is standing, seen from the waist up, at a three-quarter turn, with her hands clasped in front of her. She is plainly dressed in a heavy black gown with high neck, small ruff, and leg-of-mutton sleeves with white ruffles at the wrists. She has a flat red and gold headpiece, an elaborate pendant, and rings on her fingers. Tatton Hall, National Trust.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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. 2nd ed., J. J. Stockdale, 1811, 4 Vols.
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—on the French Count d'Almaile's discovery of a female skeleton in her coffin...
Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Fell
He was descended from the family of the Protestant writer and martyr Anne Askew .
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, 1989.
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But she learned to read very early, and continued learning into adult life. She later listed her...
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
Theme or Topic Treated in Text 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...
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...
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...

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