Collinson, Patrick. “Little Bastard”. London Review of Books, pp. 17-18.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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 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 |
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 |
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