Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking.
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Literary Setting | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | The Eventful History of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk
, The Flower of English Chivalry, and the Princess Mary of England
: An Original Romance Founded on Historical Facts is a historical novel in miniature... |
Residence | Susan Tweedsmuir | As a child Susan Grosvenor lived with her parents and sister at 30 Upper Grosvenor Street—but only in winter, for summers were spent with the extended family at her grandparents' country estate, Moor Park... |
names | Catharine Parr Traill | The family derived CPT
's given names from Henry VIII
's final wife
, an intellectual and writer who was closely involved in the foundation of the Church of England. An ancestral connection was alleged. Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking. 5 |
Publishing | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's nephew George Tollet
published, with her name, a new, enlarged edition of her work: Poems on Several Occasions. With Anne Boleyn
to Henry VIII
. An Epistle. Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University. 23 |
Textual Production | Rosemary Sutcliff | The two or three that followed included The Armourer's House, set in the reign of Henry VIII
, 1951, and Brother Dusty-Feet, 1952, in which a boy and his dog run away to... |
Literary Setting | Agnes Strickland | Her historical romance The Pilgrims of Walsingham, 1835, is written on the Canterbury Tales model (as practised originally by Chaucer
and more recently by Harriet Lee
and her sister
). AS
's pilgrims who... |
Textual Features | Lucy Toulmin Smith | John Leland, antiquarian, likely worked as a sub-librarian in the 1530s for Henry VIII
's libraries, but whether or not he was paid for his services is unclear. In 1533 he received a royal commission... |
Publishing | Lucy Toulmin Smith | In additon, LTS
provided two reviews for the English Historical Review. One was of Cartulaire Général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jérusalem by J. Delaville le Roulx
, and the other... |
Textual Features | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | In it she used public humiliation in an attempt to persuade her husband
to increase her allowance. She denounced him as a literary Cagliostro
, political Titus Oates
and marital Henry the Eighth— Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi. xxvi |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Roper | The family of Thomas More
were merchants and lawyers of London's bourgeois ruling class: Thomas duly became a lawyer and out of personal passion became a scholar of the new humanist learning. He married again... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Roper | As a child Margaret knew at least by correspondence some of the most distinguished men in Europe, including her father's friend Desiderius Erasmus
, who chose her as the dedicatee of his Commentary on the... |
politics | Margaret Roper | Thomas More
's opposition to Henry VIII
's projected marriage to Anne Boleyn
was unshakable. On 17 April 1534 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London as a political offender, having refused on 12... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Roper | His treason consisted in refusing, for reasons of religious doctrine, to accept the style which Henry VIII
had given himself, of supreme head of the Church of England
. His courage at the scaffold extended... |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | |
Literary Setting | Jean Plaidy | The first addresses the ever-fascinating question of how a girl-child whom nobody wanted could have developed into a potential queen regnant. The latter, called a moving account of a moving tragedy, takes the classic view... |
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