King Henry VIII

Standard Name: Henry VIII, King
Used Form: Henry the Eighth

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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.
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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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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...
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 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.
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Textual Production Rose Hickman
RH decided to write her family story when she read in Holinshed a mention of her father's exploit in the quarrel between Henry VIII and the Pope , and thought her children would appreciate knowing...
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...
Textual Production Jean Ingelow
Around the age of fourteen JI began penning poetry on the window shutters of her bedroom, after having been denied paper by her strictly evangelical mother . Her earliest surviving poem is Katherine of Aragon
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
In the novel Murder Most Royal, JP viewed Henry VIII 's serial marriages through the eyes of two of his wives (both executed at his command), Anne Boleyn and Catherine (sometimes Katherine) Howard ...

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