Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press.
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Fictionalization | Anne Askew | Knowledge of AA
's writing spread rapidly. The reactionary Stephen Gardiner
, Bishop of Winchester, complained on 6 June 1547 of the number of copies in circulation. Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press. xxviii-xxix |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Basset | Despite her personal achievements, Margaret Roper's fame has and to some extent still does rest primarily on her status as the eldest and favourite daughter of Thomas More
, Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VIII |
Textual Features | Selina Bunbury | Anne Boleyn
, thus introduced as an example of what woman ought not to be, is portrayed as a victim both of her own misguided genius and of the evil passions of a sensual man... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Butts | His forebears had strong links with the artistic world. While he himself was a friend of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, Mary's great-grandfather, Captain Thomas Butts
, had been a patron of William Blake |
Family and Intimate relationships | May Edginton | Francis Baily
was a novelist and one-time editor of Royal Magazine. It was in the context of the magazine that they met, as ME
was one of its contributors. Baily was the author from... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | The play is a Senecan tragedy, written for the closet, not the public stage, though it is worth remembering that upper-class circles reading or performing such plays were connoisseurs of the highly dramatised masque... |
Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | Princess Elizabeth (later QEI
) sent her father
a New Year's gift: her translation of Katherine Parr
's Prayers or Meditacions into three languages: Latin, French and Italian. Collinson, Patrick. “Little Bastard”. London Review of Books, pp. 17-18. 17 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Elizabeth I | Elizabeth's father, King Henry VIII
, had been an able and charismatic ruler in his youth. In decline he was tyrannical and paranoid. His second daughter, however, succeeded in remaining on good terms with him... |
Dedications | Queen Elizabeth I | The dedication, also to Henry VIII
, is Elizabeth's only surviving letter to him. This work was written out by the young translator in her own italic hand, and bound and embroidered by herself in... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | If she was the recipient of this dedication, however, that implies that her religious views had undergone no serious change since her early days as a Protestant
champion in the closing stages of Henry VIII |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | Elizabeth's father, Sir Goddard Oxenbridge
of Brede Place, Sussex, was knighted by Henry VIII
at his coronation. He died, as a pious Catholic, in the same year as his wife. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit,. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers, edited by Susan M. Felch, Ashgate, pp. 1-51. 2 |
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... |
Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | AF
turned to a perennially popular subject with her historical study The Six Wives of Henry VIII. “Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 276 |
Cultural formation | Rose Hickman | She belonged to the London trading class, which was rising rapidly in wealth and influence. Life at this date was hazardous, however. Hers was shaped by her parents' belief in the new reformed religion, and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rose Hickman | RH
's father, William Lok or Locke (1480-1550), had been married before and he was twice more married after the death of his second wife, Katherine (Cook)—who bore him nine children—and whose protestant faith he... |
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