Bacon, Anne. “Introduction”. The Letters of Lady Anne Bacon, edited by Gemma Allen, Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 1-45.
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King Edward VI
Standard Name: Edward VI, King
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Bacon | Her father, Sir Anthony Cooke
of Gidea Hall near London, was admired for his learning although he was self-educated, having apparently not attended university. He was tutor to the boy king Edward VI
. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Elizabeth I | Elizabeth's younger half-brother, Edward
, son of Jane Seymour
, shared her upbringing and her Protestantism. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Katherine Parr | Within a month of Henry's death on 28 January 1547, KP
was involved with Thomas, Lord Seymour
, who had proposed to her during her second widowhood. She married him secretly, apparently for love. Amid... |
| politics | Katherine Parr | KP
supervised the education, encouraged the writing, and tried to form the minds of her new batch of step-children: Mary
, Elizabeth
, and Edward
. (Susan E. James
in the Oxford Dictionary of... |
| politics | Rose Hickman | RH
had been nearly ten years married when the Protestant Edward VI
died on 6 July 1553, and the Catholic Mary Tudor
succeeded him. This was bad news for those of her religious opinions: in... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Shirley | As a member of her community Shirley wrote for the good of that community. Though she professed to judge herself unworthy, she thought it her duty & part to write, hoping to inspire all those... |
| Textual Features | Winifred Peck | This book charts, in one chapter per incumbent, a selection from the men who have ministered to the spiritual needs of a fictional parish named St Mary Luce from the sixteenth century to the present... |
| Textual Features | Isabella Neil Harwood | INH
made it clear in the prologue of the first play that Lady Jane Grey was as historically accurate as possible. Harwood, Isabella Neil. Lady Jane Grey; Inez, or, The Bride of Portugal. Ellis and Green, 1871. prelims |
| Textual Production | Constance Smedley | Dramatic writings by CS
and her husband in the USA began with the five-act Miriam, Sister of Moses, about the Old Testament character who was healed of leprosy. They had been working on this... |
Timeline
28 January 1547: King Henry VIII died, and the youngest of...
National or international item
28 January 1547
King Henry VIII
died, and the youngest of his children (the only boy among them) assumed the throne of England and Wales as Edward VI
.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
42-3
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 77
2 May 1550: Joan Bocher, also called Joan of Kent, was...
Building item
2 May 1550
Joan Bocher
, also called Joan of Kent
, was burned as a heretic for denying the virgin birth of Christ.
Brett, Simon, b. 1945, editor. The Faber Book of Diaries. Faber, 1987.
156
Late 1552: Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury...
Building item
Late 1552
Thomas Cranmer
, Archbishop of Canterbury under Edward VI
, produced an Anglican
revised Book of Common Prayer.
“Liturgical Resources Online”. Links for for Seminarians, Pastors & Teachers.
6 July 1553: The sixteen-year-old Edward VI died, producing...
National or international item
6 July 1553
The sixteen-year-old Edward VI
died, producing a succession crisis: for fear of rule by his Catholic
sister Mary
, Edward pronounced both his sisters to be bastards, and the crown passed (very briefly) to Lady Jane Grey
10 July 1553: Lady Jane Grey (who descended through her...
National or international item
10 July 1553
Lady Jane Grey
(who descended through her mother from Henry VIII
's sister Mary
) acceded to the throne of England.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
261
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1555: Bridewell Prison, the first house of correction...
Building item
1555
Bridewell Prison
, the first house of correction for vagrants and beggars, was established in the same building as the recently-founded Bridewell Royal Hospital
a residence for apprentices during their training.
Scull, Andrew. The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900. Yale University Press, 1993.
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Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, editors. The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan, 1983.
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