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Textual Production | Norah Lofts | NL
published another historical work, The Concubine: A Novel Based Upon the Life of Anne Boleyn
, Henry VIII
's Second Wife. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 80 |
Textual Production | Norah Lofts | Catherine had been replaced in the affections and the dynastic ambitions of Henry VIII
by Anne Boleyn, subject of NL
's 1963 historical novel. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Locke | Her mother, Margery, née Gwynneth or Guinet
(variously spelled), was reported to be witty and housewifely. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Felch, Susan M. “’Noble Gentlewomen famous for their learning’: The London Circle of Anne Vaughan Lock”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, Vol. 16 , No. 2, pp. 14-19. 16 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Locke | Anne's father, Stephen Vaughan
, was a London merchant adventurer with strong ties to the court of Henry VIII
. He served as government agent in the Netherlands for Thomas Cromwell
. He was a... |
Cultural formation | Aemilia Lanyer | She belonged to the closely-defined group of artists and performers dependent first on Henry
's, then Elizabeth
's, court. She and her family were probably Protestant in sympathies. Woods, Susanne. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. Oxford University Press. 4-8 |
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 |
Education | Winifred Holtby | WH
completed her course in the summer of 1921 (the year after women were admitted to degrees at Oxford). On her written exam results she was given a viva (an oral exam) to determine whether... |
Textual Production | Rose Hickman | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rose Hickman | RH
situates her own story within that of her family, and sets the family story in the context of the clash between the reformed and traditional systems of Christianity. She opens with Of My Father... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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 |
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