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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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | 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 Production | Jean Ingelow | |
Textual Production | Norah Lofts | NL
published The King's Pleasure, a historical novel inspired by the life of Catherine of Aragon
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Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
launched under this name another historical trilogy, about Catherine of Aragon
(sometimes spelled Katharine or Katherine), Henry VIII
's first wife, with the Tudor novel Katharine, the Virgin Widow. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Features | Norah Lofts | Lofts, said a reviewer of Anne Boleyn: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Wife, discusses some interesting issues. One is that Catherine of Aragon
might well fail to sympathise with her husband's... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | By 1537 (the year after the divorced Catherine of Aragon
died) Elizabeth Oxenbridge (later Lady Tyrwhit)
held a position at Court as gentlewoman of the privy chamber. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Strickland | The Athenæum was quite mocking about the quality of the history, finding it deficient in the critical evaluation and referencing of sources, and claiming to have derived entertainment but not instruction from the first volume... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Elizabeth I | Elizabeth's elder half-sister, Mary Tudor
, was estranged from her by loyalty to her mother (Catherine of Aragon
, whom Elizabeth's mother had supplanted) and by her fervent Catholicism. The gap narrowed slightly when... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katherine Parr | KP
's mother, born Maud Greene
, was a cultivated and sophisticated woman: probably born in London, with a father who owned several large estates. She married in 1508, at the age of thirteen... |
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