Martienssen, Anthony. Queen Katherine Parr. McGraw-Hill.
146-7, 153
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Residence | Jean Plaidy | Many of the royal characters in her historical novels had visited this half-timbered house, which dates back to 1400 and performed the function of a lodging for pilgrims heading for Canterbury. The main doorway, in... |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
followed this Tudor novel with another involving Henry VIII
, this time The Sixth Wife, published in 1953, about Katherine Parr
, who married Henry in 1543 (ten years after Anne Boleyn had... |
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... |
Textual Features | Jean Plaidy | In Rose Without a Thorn (in which she returns to the topic of Henry VIII
's fifth wife, Katherine Howard
), she again presents her heroine (realistically considering the age she writes of) in terms... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katherine Parr | Four months after she was widowed for a second time, KP
married, privately at Hampton Court, King Henry VIII
; she was his sixth and last wife. Martienssen, Anthony. Queen Katherine Parr. McGraw-Hill. 146-7, 153 Parr, Katherine. “Introductory Note”. Katherine Parr, edited by Janel M. Mueller, Scolar Press; Ashgate, p. ix - xiv. ix, x |
politics | Katherine Parr | Henry VIII
told KP
he objected to being taught by my wife. Martienssen, Anthony. Queen Katherine Parr. McGraw-Hill. 213 |
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. Martienssen, Anthony. Queen Katherine Parr. McGraw-Hill. 220 |
Cultural formation | Katherine Parr | Last queen of Henry VIII
, KP
was one of only eight Englishwomen to publish during the years 1486-1548. She has been recognised as the earliest woman writer to see her original works in print... |
Textual Features | Willa Muir | She compares the parallel stories of the English Reformation under King Henry VIII
, which established the Church of England
(Anglican or Episcopalian), and the Scottish Reformation under John Knox
in 1559, which established the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte McCarthy | Following chapters Of Hell, and Judgment and Of the Soul, and Temptation, she laments a growth in sectarianism and decline in good works. In Of the Romish Religion, she criticizes Catholic beliefs and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Mathers | The title comes from the chorus of the well-known song Greensleeves, which is popularly supposed to have been written by Henry VIII
. |
Textual Features | Hilary Mantel | This novel begins as Henry VIII
is already thinking about marrying Jane Seymour
, and ends at a moment when it seems that Cromwell is triumphant over his enemies (including his former ally Anne Boleyn |
Textual Features | Hilary Mantel | She begins with Anne as vehicle for the fantasies of later generations: the way that she herself as a small child was regaled by a nun with the idea that but for this depraved woman... |
Literary Setting | Claire Luckham | This episodic play traces the course of Anne Boleyn's relations with King Henry VIII
from 1526 to her execution on 19 May 1536, ending with news of this event. It focuses on the early years... |
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