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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Bradstreet | AB
was writing poetry while still in her teens. Langland
's Piers Plowman, Sir Philip Sidney
and the Countess of Pembroke
(whose mother, like AB
, was born a Dudley), and Camden
's life... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Bradstreet | |
| Textual Features | Anna Eliza Bray | Owen, his wife Alice, and their children Rose and Edward are terrorized by Catholic tormentors. Bray, Anna Eliza. The Novels and Romances of Anna Eliza Bray. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 3: 40 Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 52 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Brereton | Each poem is headed by a picture, showing the thatched structure of Merlin's Cave and the stone-built royal hermitage respectively. The first poem, Merlin, is Humbly inscrib'd to Caroline
, Brereton, Jane. Merlin. Cave. title-page |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | For a young woman who had never attended university (as she of course could not at this time) to offer a translation from a classical language was both courageous and confident. It was a long... |
| Textual Production | Bryher | Bryher published six other historical novels: The Player's Boy (1953, reprinted by the Paris Press
of Ashfield, Massachusetts: set in the reign of Elizabeth
and featuring a boy who plays women's parts on stage),... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Caesar | His great-great-father, Cesare Adelmare
, had migrated from Italy to England and become physician to Mary Tudor
and Elizabeth I
. Sedgwick, Romney, editor. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1715-1754. http://www.histparl.ac.uk/about/publications/1715-1754. Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741) |
| politics | Mary Caesar | From the time she began writing her Jacobite credo in 1724, MC
worked on constructing a domestic cult for the edification of family and friends in the Jacobite faith, in which archives, pictures and poetry... |
| Textual Features | Mary Caesar | MC
begins with a commemorative account of the dealings of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford
(First Lord of the Treasury under Queen Anne
), with her husband, Charles Caesar
. It was news of... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria Callcott | MC
opens her preface with a kind of apology for not being a mother herself. Her history is attentive to women, both public and private. Of her three chapters on Queen Elizabeth
, she says,... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Colin Campbell | LCC
's parents were married on 2 August 1851 at St Peter's Church in Dublin. “FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| Textual Features | Leonora Carrington | The narrative is told in the first person to you, LC
's interlocutor Jeanne Megnen
, and divided into five journal or diary entries dated 23-27 August 1943. Across those entries LC
recounts her... |
| Health | Dora Carrington | Carrington attempted to give herself a miscarriage by riding a horse violently, and when this did not work she became depressed to a nearly suicidal degree. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 271-2 |
| Residence | Barbara Cartland | Part of the appeal of Camfield Place for her was its storied history: an oak tree in the garden is said to mark the place where Elizabeth I
shot her first stag, and from 1867... |
| Textual Features | Katherine Chidley | The title exhorts him to begin the new yeare, with new fruits of love, first to God, and then to his brethren. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Timeline
1582: Thomas Bentley edited The Monument of Matrones,...
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1582
Thomas Bentley
edited The Monument of Matrones, an important anthology containing writings by women, mostly religious.
13 July 1584: A reconnaissance expedition sent by Sir Walter...
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13 July 1584
A reconnaissance expedition sent by Sir Walter Ralegh or Raleigh
landed in North America, in what became the colony of Virginia. The next summer Ralegh, having received a patent or royal permission as a colonist...
Between late 1584 and early 1585: Francis Bacon wrote his Letter of Advice...
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Between late 1584 and early 1585
Francis Bacon
wrote his Letter of Advice to Queen Elizabeth.
20-21 September 1586: Anthony Babington and six other Roman Catholics...
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20-21 September 1586
Anthony Babington
and six other Roman Catholics
were executed for high treason (plotting to murder Queen Elizabeth
with the intention of putting Mary, Queen of Scots
, on the throne).
8 February 1587: Mary Queen of Scots was executed at Fotheringay...
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8 February 1587
Mary Queen of Scots
was executed at Fotheringay Castle in England.
1588: Elizabeth I licensed a company for trading...
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1588
Elizabeth I
licensed a company for trading to Africa.
26 July 1588: Queen Elizabeth granted a patent or royal...
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26 July 1588
Queen Elizabeth
granted a patent or royal licence for the first system of real shoirthand, invented by the writing-master Peter Bales
and by Timothy Bright
.
23 January 1590: Edmund Spenser dated (using the old-style...
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23 January 1590
Edmund Spenser
dated (using the old-style reckoning of 1589) his letter to Sir Walter Raleghexpounding his whole intention in the first three books of The Faerie Queene, which was published soon afterwards.
1591: Calligrapher Esther Inglis presented one...
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1591
Calligrapher Esther Inglis
presented one of her earliest works, a verse Discours de la foi, to Queen Elizabeth I
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
3 March 1592: Elizabeth I granted the founding charter...
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3 March 1592
Elizabeth I
granted the founding charter for Trinity College, Dublin.
7 June 1594: Dr Roderigo Lopez, a Portuguese Jew who had...
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7 June 1594
Dr Roderigo Lopez
, a Portuguese Jew who had lived thirty-five years in England, most of them at the head of the medical profession, was executed for his alleged part in a plot to...
19 November 1594: Edmund Spenser's Amoretti (sonnets) and Epithalamium...
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19 November 1594
March 1599: Queen Elizabeth sent her young favourite...
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March 1599
Queen Elizabeth
sent her young favourite the Earl of Essex
to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant with a large army to crush Tyrone
's Rebellion.
14 April 1599: Sir John Davies registered with the Stationers'...
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14 April 1599
Sir John Davies
registered with the Stationers' Company
the first of the two well-known works he published this year, essays entitled NosceTeipsum (Know Thyself).
7 February 1601: Followers of the Earl of Essex attended a...
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7 February 1601
Followers of the Earl of Essex
attended a play at the Globe Theatre, the day before rising against Queen Elizabeth
: this has been taken, probably wrongly, to demonstrate the theatre's political power.
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