Lady Arbella Stuart
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Standard Name: Stuart, Lady Arbella
Birth Name: Arbella Stuart
Styled: Lady Arbella Stuart
Indexed Name: Lady Arabella Stuart
LAS
, writing in the dangerous years of the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, was a remarkable letter-writer and also a poet.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Rachel Speght | RS
's godmother Mary Moundford of Moundeford
was an important influence on her. McLean-Fiander, Kimberly R. D. A Critical Edition of Rachel Speght’s Mortalities Memorandum. University of Alberta, 1992. 12-3 Bramston, Sir John. The Autobiography of Sir John Bramston. John Bowyer Nichols and Son for The Camden Society, 1845. 15-6 This woman's husband, Thomas Moundford or Moundeford
, a successful London doctor and author, was a parishioner of RS
's... |
Family and Intimate relationships | L. E. L. | Scholar Cynthia Lawford
notes that Stuart was the maiden name of Jerdan's mother, and that this name is a variant of that of the famous Lady Arbella Stuart
, who had briefly stayed in LEL's... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Anne Clifford | Among her early friends was Lady Arbella Stuart
. Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997. 17 |
Literary Setting | Felicia Hemans | The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth
, Byron
, Coleridge
, Goethe
, Schiller
—and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger |
Occupation | Christopher Marlowe | Meanwhile records from summer 1587 indicate that Marlowe was already performing valuable secret services for the queen
: that is, he was employed as an intelligence agent or spy, perhaps in the network which Sir Francis Walsingham |
Reception | Mary Oxlie | This work listed MO
as one of its Women among the moderns eminent for poetry. Phillips, nephew and pupil of John Milton
, seems quite interested in the existence of women poets. Others in his... |
Textual Features | Beatrice Harraden | Its heroine, Beryl, like Childie before her, has a white kitten and a doll with a literary name: Arbella Stuart
. She is visited at unexpected moments by fairies in unusual categories like The Bread-Fairies... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Hamilton | Early in her life EHhad recourse to the pen by stealth. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818. 1: 51-2 |
Textual Production | Isabella Neil Harwood | |
Textual Production | Aemilia Lanyer | AL
accompanied her title poem with elaborate paratextual matter, both to introduce and to conclude it. Before the narrative come nine individual prefatory addresses or dedications to powerful ladies of the court, all except one... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Alice Meynell | The title essay links the colour of life to the weight, density, and lushness of the body and its skin. AM
writes that the true colour of life is not red. . . . The... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Agnes Strickland | It appears from the book that the element of fresh and painstaking research has declined in comparison with the sisters' earlier works of the same type. The lives written by Agnes included those of Lady Margaret Clifford |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Isabella Neil Harwood | The first play, Arabella Stuart, is a historical romance set at the court of King James I
, following the love affair of Arabella (or Arbella)
, the king's cousin and a possible claimant... |
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