Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Roper | The family of Thomas More
were merchants and lawyers of London's bourgeois ruling class: Thomas duly became a lawyer and out of personal passion became a scholar of the new humanist learning. He married again... |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Roper | As a child Margaret knew at least by correspondence some of the most distinguished men in Europe, including her father's friend Desiderius Erasmus
, who chose her as the dedicatee of his Commentary on the... |
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
. |
Literary Setting | Agnes Strickland | Her historical romance The Pilgrims of Walsingham, 1835, is written on the Canterbury Tales model (as practised originally by Chaucer
and more recently by Harriet Lee
and her sister
). AS
's pilgrims who... |
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... |
Literary Setting | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | The Eventful History of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk
, The Flower of English Chivalry, and the Princess Mary of England
: An Original Romance Founded on Historical Facts is a historical novel in miniature... |
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... |
names | Catharine Parr Traill | The family derived CPT
's given names from Henry VIII
's final wife
, an intellectual and writer who was closely involved in the foundation of the Church of England. An ancestral connection was alleged. Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking. 5 |
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... |
politics | Margaret Roper | Thomas More
's opposition to Henry VIII
's projected marriage to Anne Boleyn
was unshakable. On 17 April 1534 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London as a political offender, having refused on 12... |
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 |
Publishing | Lucy Toulmin Smith | In additon, LTS
provided two reviews for the English Historical Review. One was of Cartulaire Général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jérusalem by J. Delaville le Roulx
, and the other... |
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