Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Katherine Parr
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Standard Name: Parr, Katherine
Birth Name: Katherine Parr
Pseudonym: K. P.
Married Name: Katherine Borough
Married Name: Katherine Neville
Titled: Katherine Neville, Lady Latimer
Royal Name: Queen Katherine
Used Form: Catherine Parr
KP
's interventions in national and ecclesiastical history in the earlier sixteenth century, at the time of the Reformation (which were more far-reaching than has often been recognised), rested on her skill in writing and her faith in the educational power of reading. She produced (besides letters) religious writings: prayers and meditations.
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Their work (covering the lives both of queens regnant and of queens consort up to Anne
) covered enough new ground to be genuinely innovative. Their general thesis was that queens as rulers had been...
Scott, Mary, and Gae Holladay. The Female Advocate. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1984.
iii
She looks farther into the past for examples than he does. Whereas Duncombe begins with Orinda (Katherine Philips
), MS
turns back to the Renaissance...
Textual Production
Jean Plaidy
JP
followed this Tudor novel with another involving Henry VIII
, this time The Sixth Wife, published in 1953, about Katherine Parr
, who married Henry in 1543 (ten years after Anne Boleyn had...
Textual Features
Sarah Green
This novel, a third-person narrative, opens arrestingly—It was a cold, and dreary evening, in the month of October 1548
Green, Sarah. The Royal Exile; or, Victims of Human Passions: An Historical Romance of the Sixteenth Century. 2nd ed., J. J. Stockdale, 1811, 4 Vols.
1: 1
—on the French Count d'Almaile's discovery of a female skeleton in her coffin...
Textual Production
Antonia Fraser
Doing research for her study of Catherine Parr
she noted that the huge marble Victorian tomb by Sir Gilbert Scott
, which later admirers erected for the queen at Sudeley in Gloucestershire, contributed to...
Textual Production
Queen Elizabeth I
The precocious child who would one day be QEI
wrote her earliest surviving letter, in Italian, to her stepmother Katherine Parr
.
Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press, 2000.
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Textual Production
Queen Elizabeth I
Princess Elizabeth (later QEI
) sent Katherine Parr
a New Year's gift: a manuscript translation she had done of The Mirrour or Glasse of the Sinful Soul
Princess Elizabeth (later QEI
) sent her father
a New Year's gift: her translation of Katherine Parr
's Prayers or Meditacions into three languages: Latin, French and Italian.
Collinson, Patrick. “Little Bastard”. London Review of Books, 6 July 2000, pp. 17-18.
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Cultural formation
Queen Elizabeth I
Brought up both by her teachers and by Katherine Parr
in evangelical Protestantism, she developed into a pragmatic Anglican
, probably both by conviction and by informed political choice. She exercised her diplomatic skills to...
Education
Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth was given a full Renaissance education, latterly under the supervision of her stepmother Katherine Parr
. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, however, insists on the importance in her life of the upper-class...
Intertextuality and Influence
Queen Elizabeth I
The style is elaborate and heavily ornamented. It was probably inspired by Katherine Parr
's own The Lamentacion of a Synner.
Astell's late twentieth-century reputation as a feminist foremother led to a biography by Ruth Perry
(1986), a one-volume selection of her work edited by Bridget Hill
(The First English Feminist, 1986), and editions...
Friends, Associates
Anne Askew
AA
was associated in these activities with Queen Katherine Parr
; this contributed to her persecution. Authorities hoped to incriminate the queen through AA
.
Wilson, Derek. A Tudor Tapestry: Men, Women and Society in Reformation England. Heinemann, 1972.
182
Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, 1996.
xxvii
Education
Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit
As an adult she belonged to a group around Queen Katherine Parr
which amounted to a a women's bible-study group.
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit
He came from a family which owned land at Kettleby in Lincolnshire. During the course of the marriage he held various court or official positions and added to his land holdings. He was a...
Timeline
1582: Thomas Bentley edited The Monument of Matrones,...
Women writers item
1582
Thomas Bentley
edited The Monument of Matrones, an important anthology containing writings by women, mostly religious.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Horton, Louise. “’Restore Me That Am Lost’: Recovering the Forgotten History of Lady Abergavenny’s Prayers”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
26
, No. 1, Feb. 2019, pp. 3-14.
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Texts
Parr, Katherine. “Introductory Note”. Katherine Parr, edited by Janel M. Mueller, Scolar Press; Ashgate, 1996, p. ix - xiv.
