Horton, Louise. “’Restore Me That Am Lost’: Recovering the Forgotten History of Lady Abergavenny’s Prayers”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
26
, No. 1, pp. 3-14. 6
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | EOB
writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld
for praising Elizabeth Rowe
. She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington
is the real author of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Bradstreet | |
politics | Queen Elizabeth I | Elizabeth's youth was lived in the shadow of national power politics. Her younger brother succeeded her father as king. The year she turned twenty he died, and Lady Jane Grey
, placed on the throne... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny | Her brother Henry, second Earl of Rutland
, was associated with extreme reformers including John Dudley (father of Lady Jane Grey
) and was imprisoned in July 1553 for supporting Lady Jane's claim to the throne. Horton, Louise. “’Restore Me That Am Lost’: Recovering the Forgotten History of Lady Abergavenny’s Prayers”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 26 , No. 1, pp. 3-14. 6 |
politics | Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny | FNBA
's husband not only attended the coronation of the Catholic monarch Mary Tudor
on 1 October 1553 (while her eldest brother had just been imprisoned for supporting the rival Protestant candidate Lady Jane Grey |
Cultural formation | Jane Ellen Harrison | In her memoir, JEH
writes that although she was English, she hated the idea of the Empire, for it contained the seeds of war. She felt, however, intensely proud of being a Yorkshire woman. Harrison, Jane Ellen. Reminiscences of a Student’s Life. Hogarth Press. 11 |
Textual Production | Isabella Neil Harwood | INH
published through Ellis and Green
her first volume of plays (none of which had yet been produced) as Lady Jane Grey
; Inez
, or, The Bride of Portugal under the pseudonym Ross Neil... |
Occupation | Harriett Jay | HJ
made her London debut the next month, on 22 December, in Buchanan's The Nine Days Queen. In this too she took on the lead role (this time as Lady Jane Grey
). Her... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Ann Kelty | Her first subject is Princess Charlotte
. After that MAK
includes Henrietta (Mrs James) Fordyce
, whose life had been written by Isabella Kelly
in 1823, and many writers (including Lady Jane Grey
, Lady Rachel Russell |
politics | Lady Jane Lumley | LJL
and her husband attended the coronation of Mary Tudor
. As a Roman Catholic, John, first Baron Lumley
, was a natural Mary supporter, while his wife was cousin to the recently deposed and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Jane Lumley | The equally learned Lady Jane Grey
was a cousin of LJL
on her mother's side. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Marcet | The preface to Conversations on Language mentions JM
's long experience and her popularity with the public to justify her presentation to children of such a complex and difficult subject. In Conversations on the History... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary More | MM
believes that she is saying something new and not commonly known when she argues that male power over women has grown gradually by unjust laws. She sets out by quoting from and commenting on... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Judith Sargent Murray | She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Some of the fictions relate to philosophical and theological debates of the time; Bigold, Melanie. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Trotter, Carter, and Rowe. |
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