Margaret of Anjou queen consort of King Henry VI

Standard Name: Margaret of Anjou,, queen consort of King Henry VI

Connections

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Textual Features	Cicely Hamilton	The pageant required more than fifty actresses, only three of whom had speaking parts, to portray famous women from history (not all of them remembered today). In the initial, Scala production, the only speaking role...
Textual Production	Margaret Holford	Margaret Holford the younger issued a second verse romance, Margaret of Anjou, in ten cantos. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 2: 548 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production	Georgiana Fullerton	GF followed Constance Sherwood in 1867 with A Stormy Life, which fictionalized the life of Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2096 (1867): 888
Textual Production	Jean Plaidy	The Plantagenet series concluded with two novels issued in 1982: Red Rose of Anjou, about the now adult Henry VI and his queen, Margaret of Anjou , and The Sun in Splendour, about Edward IV . OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence	She opens her discussion here with a question: What does the Woman's Movement mean and what is its significance in our modern life? Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. The Meaning of the Woman’s Movement. Woman’s Press. 3 First of all, she answers, the movement signifies the awakening of...

Timeline

15 April 1448

Margaret of Anjou (wife of Henry VI ) founded Queen's College, Cambridge ; in March 1465 Elizabeth Woodville (wife of Edward IV ) became its patroness and foundress: hence the present position of the apostrophe.

Tibbs, Rodney. The University and Colleges of Cambridge. Terence Dalton Ltd., 1972.

Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

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Olsen, Kirstin. Chronology of Women’s History. Greenwood, 1994.

Queen’s College Cambridge - Apostrophe. http://www.quns.cam.ac.uk/Queens/Misc/apostrophe.html.

4 March 1461

The Yorkist Edward IV was proclaimed king of England following his military victory over the forces of the Lancastrian Henry VI (who had for years been increasingly withdrawn and clearly incapable of personal rule).

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

29 March 1461

In a climactic and singularly unchivalric battle of the Wars of the Roses, fought on Palm Sunday at Towton in North Yorkshire, about 28,000 men died and Edward IV 's position as king was confirmed.

Boylston, Anthea. “The Towton Mass Grave Project”. University of Bradford, Department of Archaeological Sciences, 22 May 2003.

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