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Queen Elizabeth I
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Standard Name: Elizabeth I, Queen
Birth Name: Elizabeth Tudor
Royal Name: Elizabeth I
QEI
was a scholar by training and inclination (who wrote translations both as learning exercises and for recreation), as well as a writer in many genres and several languages. As monarch she wrote speeches, and all her life she wrote letters, poems, and prayers. (Some of these categories occasionally overlap.) Once her writing moved beyond the dutifulness of her youth, she had a pungent and forceful style both in prose and poetry.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Lucy Aikin | With her Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, published in two volumes, LA
launched her work in the particular style of history for which she is best known. Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 18: 542 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucy Aikin | LA
's preface denies the absurd notion that absolute gender equality might be feasible and advises women not to attempt to become inferior men. But she asserts, there is not an endowment, or propensity, or... |
| Textual Features | Penelope Aubin | PA
celebrates recent military victories, and praises Anne
for completing Queen Elizabeth
's work in assuring the strength of the Church of England
. She provides lavish panegyric for every Stuart monarch, as her ravish'd... |
| Textual Production | Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy | MCA
made what seems to be her first appearance in English, with The Novels of Elizabeth Queen of England
, Containing the history of Queen Ann of Bullen (which represented a part of her Nouvelles... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Bacon | |
| politics | Anne Bacon | In spite of her Puritan convictions AB
pledged her allegiance without delay to the Catholic Queen Mary
and was later a gentlewoman of the privy chamber. She thus benefited the male members of her family... |
| Occupation | Anne Bacon | |
| Education | Mary Basset | Mary Roper (later MB
) was taught as a child to read Greek and Latin. Her mother tried to get Roger Ascham
to teach her, but found him unwilling to leave Cambridge University. (He did... |
| Textual Features | Simone de Beauvoir | SB
produces a treatise rather than a polemic, using a studied moderation of tone. She deploys an artful range of styles and her material is drawn from biology, history, sociology, economics, and in a large... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | EOB
turned to history in her next biography, Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, mother of Elizabeth I
. Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 25: 273 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Despite her subject, EOB
refrains from demonizing Queen Elizabeth
. She goes into great detail about the cultural milieu in which Mary grew up (the sixteenth-century French court) and uses unpublished letters to add depth... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Enid Blyton | It was made of the same mix as Sunny Stories: a letter from the editor, nature notes, stories, strip cartoons, serials, puzzles and competitions, letters from child readers, and the organisation of fund-raising for... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Boyd | EB
endorses Haddock
's blockade of Spain. She opens on England's greatness in the days When Great Eliza
fill'd the British Throne; she praises Elizabeth for her decision not to marry Philip of Spain |
| Literary Setting | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | Each title-page proclaims: If the cap fits, wear it—perhaps acknowledging the à clef element of the story. Bradshaw, Mary Ann Cavendish. Memoirs of Maria, Countess d’Alva. William Miller. 1: title-page |
| Textual Features | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | The novel consists largely of the personal histories of its (good) central characters, told severally in flashback. Maria's relates, with documents, how her father died young, leaving her co-heiress with her sister, while her violent-tempered... |
Timeline
889-899: King Alfred's last decade was a kind of renaissance...
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889-899
King Alfred
's last decade was a kind of renaissance of learning in his kingdom of Wessex.
12 April 1533: Anne Boleyn, already secretly married to...
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12 April 1533
Anne Boleyn
, already secretly married to Henry VIII
, was publicly recognised as his consort in the public celebrations of the end of Lent.
19 May 1536: Anne Boleyn, mother of the future Queen Elizabeth,...
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19 May 1536
Anne Boleyn
, mother of the future Queen Elizabeth
, was executed in London for alleged high treason.
1538: Royal Injunctions appeared: a radical, Erasmian...
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1538
Royal Injunctions appeared: a radical, Erasmian
document whose first provision was that an English bible should be made available in every parish church.
June 1554: An eighteen-year-old servant, Elizabeth Croft,...
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June 1554
An eighteen-year-old servant, Elizabeth Croft
, confessed in front of a crowd gathered at St Paul's Cross in London that she had taken part in a hoax, playing a supernatural voice that spoke from a...
17 November 1558: Queen Mary I died, and Elizabeth I assumed...
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17 November 1558
1559: Negotiating between opposing factions, Elizabeth...
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1559
Negotiating between opposing factions, Elizabeth I
sought to establish the English Church under her headship; Thomas Cranmer
's Prayer Book of 1552 became the official Book of Common Prayer.
1560: The complete Geneva Bible appeared, translated...
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1560
The complete GenevaBible appeared, translated by English Protestant exiles from the reign of Mary
: the first accessible or mass-circulation edition of the Bible in English, with small format and roman (not gothic) print.
18 July 1564: The Merchant Adventurers' Company received...
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18 July 1564
The Merchant Adventurers' Company
received a new charter from Elizabeth I
that, among other things, incorporated the company in London, extended the geographical range of its dealings, and solified its status as a national...
May 1568: Mary Queen of Scots fled from Scotland to...
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May 1568
Mary Queen of Scots
fled from Scotland to England; she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I
after standing trial in October that year.
1570: The Scholemaster was published, by Roger...
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1570
25 February 1570: Pope Pius V issued his papal bull Regnans...
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25 February 1570
Pope Pius V
issued his papal bull Regnans in excelsis, excommunicating Elizabeth I
and releasing her subjects from their allegiance to her.
9-27 July 1575: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, favourite...
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9-27 July 1575
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
, favourite of Queen Elizabeth
, threw a particularly magnificent entertainment for her at Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire.
August 1578: Three female wax figures were found in a...
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August 1578
Three female wax figures were found in a London dunghill with bristles through the chest; the Spanish ambassador reported a widespread assumption that this was a witchcraft threat to the queen
's life.
1579: For the first time in Elizabeth's reign,...
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1579
For the first time in Elizabeth
's reign, the Jesuits
were expelled from England.
Texts
Marguerite de Navarre,. A Godly Medytacyon of the Cristen Sowle. Translator Elizabeth I, Queen, Wesel D. van der Straten, 1548.
Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Shell, Marc et al. Elizabeth’s Glass. Translator Elizabeth I, Queen, University of Nebraska, 1993.
Marguerite de Navarre, and Marguerite de Navarre. The Mirrour or Glasse of the Sinful Soul. Translator Elizabeth I, Queen, 1544.
Elizabeth I, Queen. The Poems of Queen Elizabeth I. Editor Bradner, Leicester, Brown University Press, 1964.