Thoresby, Ralph. The Diary of Ralph Thoresby. Editor Hunter, Joseph, H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830, 2 vols.
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King Alfred
Standard Name: Alfred, King
Used Form: Alfred the Great
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Her school plays present King Canute as actually supposing that his kingly power can turn back the sea, and King Alfred
, when disguised as a peasant, proving incompetent at simple practical tasks. |
| Education | Jennifer Dawson | Her fellow-student Joy Field (later Whitby)
thought her very contained; she later realised that this reserve was the result of acute shyness. She found Oxford daunting. There were fewer grammar school entrants in those... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Elstob | Elizabeth's brother, William
(who was a scholar ten years older than she was, a Fellow of University College, Oxford
from 1696, and a clergyman in London from 1702), was an important figure in her earlier... |
| Publishing | Maria Callcott | MC
told her friend Caroline Fox
that she would write this book from memory without consulting sources. It may be relevant to her choice of title that Mary Martha Sherwood
had published a children's book... |
| Residence | Catharine Macaulay | Bath was familiar to her from visits; she may at first have intended no more than another extended visit for herself and her daughter. Very soon she had moved them both into Thomas Wilson's home... |
| Textual Features | Isabella Lickbarrow | These two poems are linked by something resembling a dramatic structure. IL
presents the princess being lamented by a Cambrian minstrel, then by shepherdesses, shepherds, and nymphs of the sea and the woods (each bringing... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Elstob | Ralph Thoresby
recorded on 22 January 1709 that EE
had published some composures of her own |
| Textual Production | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | Among works that SSW
claimed when corresponding, late in life, with the Royal Literary Fund
were a Life of Alfred the Great and a work entitled Romance and Reason in two volumes. |
| Textual Production | Eleanor Anne Porden | Although she planned a poem on the life of Alfred
to go with the life of Richard in Coeur de Lion, she never produced it. Porden, Eleanor Anne, and Edith M. Gell. “Letters: 1821-1824”. John Franklin’s Bride, John Murray, 1930, p. various pages. 104 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ann Hawkshaw | The sonnets begin with the arrival of human beings on the lands that became Great Britain and wend their way through history, moving through treatments of the English kings including Alfred the Great
and Ethelred the Unready |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Carola Oman | Many of their subjects are national heroes, as in Alfred
, King of the English, 1939. CO
's obituary in the Times mentions Baltic Spy, 1940, as the most original among them. “Obituary: Miss Carola Oman”. Times, 12 June 1978, p. 16. 16 |
Timeline
878: By the Treaty of Wedmore, King Alfred ceded...
National or international item
878
By the Treaty of Wedmore, King Alfred
ceded to the Danes that part of England lying north of the Roman road called Watling Street.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
880-918: Aethelflaed or Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians,...
National or international item
880-918
Aethelflaed
or Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians, daughter of King Alfred
, was, with her husband, a forceful ruler of Mercia.
Morgan, Kenneth O., editor. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford University Press, 1984.
89, 85
Mercia corresponded to the current West Midlands and Welsh Marches.
889-899: King Alfred's last decade was a kind of renaissance...
Writing climate item
889-899
King Alfred
's last decade was a kind of renaissance of learning in his kingdom of Wessex.
Morgan, Kenneth O., editor. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford University Press, 1984.
84-5
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