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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.
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Vita Sackville-West | She was born into the noble Sackville family, one of the oldest-established in England. Her father, the third Baron Sackville, inherited Knole, the estate given to |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sappho | Sappho
's name was an honorific for women writers for generations. George Puttenham
may have been the first to use it to compliment a writing woman: in Parthienades, 1579, he said that Queen Elizabeth |
| Textual Production | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | MAS
describes several very early writing projects. When her mother gave her a writing-case which locked, to ensure privacy, she spent hours in pouring out the effusions of my own bitter heart, Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858, 2 vols. 1: 314 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Maria van Schurman | Having laid out her case, AMS
proceeds to summarise and refute that of her Adversaries. These she classifies as the utilitarian (who value learning purely for its cash or career value) and the envious... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Scott | MS
expands Duncombe's list of Female Geniuses. Scott, Mary, and Gae Holladay. The Female Advocate. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1984. iii |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Scott | MS
's style is controlled but vigorous. She writes with fervour, whether laying out her Protestant reading of history (Queen Elizabeth
came to the throne when Long, hid beneath the specious mask of zeal... |
| Textual Production | Flora Shaw | In 1883, FS
made plans to write a history of England to be titled From Queen to Queen (Elizabeth
to Victoria
) but she never completed it. Bell, E. Moberly. Flora Shaw. Constable, 1947. 43 Cumpston, Mary. “The Contribution to Ideas of Empire of Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard”. Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 5 , No. 1, May 1959, pp. 64-75. 66 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sir Philip Sidney | His mother, Lady Mary Sidney
, was a duke's daughter and sister of two brothers who became earls (one of them, Robert Dudley
, the Earl of Leicester and the favourite of Queen Elizabeth
)... |
| Employer | Sir Philip Sidney | On his first return from his travels SPS
became a courtier to Elizabeth I
, for whom he subsequently conducted diplomatic business with monarchs and others abroad. He also gave the queen gifts, appeared at... |
| Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | ES
published a second biography of a queen: Fanfare for Elizabeth. Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Second Edition, Revised, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971. 59-60 |
| Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | ES
, near the end of her life, published a new biography of Elizabeth I
and Mary Queen of Scots
: The Queens and the Hive. (Her final poetry volume came out on the same day.) Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Second Edition, Revised, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971. 77 |
| Textual Features | Charlotte Smith | In this book the ancient and imposing but crumbling manor house is an emblem of English society as a whole: a trope which was to be popular with later novelists. The downtrodden orphan heroine, Monimia... |
| Textual Features | Harriet Smythies | Towards the end of this poem about the Crimean War, HS
calls on the women of England. She regards them as formed with gentle hands / To minister to suffering, Smythies, Harriet. Sebastopol. 1854. 19 |
| Textual Production | Flora Annie Steel | FAS
's historical novel A Prince of Dreamers fictionalised the life of the Great Mughal Akbar
, contemporary of Queen Elizabeth I
. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981. 132-3 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 353 (15 October 1908): 348 |
| Textual Production | Agnes Strickland | Both sisters were indefatigable researchers. They took as their motto Facts, not Opinions qtd. in Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940. 62 |
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