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 |
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Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln | After a dozen years of marriage, however, her parents-in-law were being pressed by the Privy Council
(at the behest of Queen Elizabeth
) to provide suitable accommodation for the young couple and their growing family. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | Elizabeth Tyrwhit
and her husband
were given custody for a few months of Princess, later Queen, Elizabeth
, replacing her governess Katherine Astley
—who, however, was then reinstated. Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit,. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers, edited by Susan M. Felch, Ashgate, pp. 1-51. 11-12 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | Elizabeth Tyrwhit
's life at Court took a different turn after Katherine Parr
's marriage to Henry VIII
(on 12 July 1543). She participated with the queen and a whole group of court ladies in... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | The work had been entered in the Stationers' Register some time during the year following 22 July 1569. Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit,. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers, edited by Susan M. Felch, Ashgate, pp. 1-51. 50n17 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | Tyrwhit's collection of prayers is thought to date from the mid 1550s, and tradition suggests that it was written for the future Queen Elizabeth I
during her imprisonment by her sister Queen Mary
, but... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Elstob | |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Elstob | EE
's preliminary list of names suggests considerable research work: it includes several ancient or Anglo-Saxon women as well as Mary Astell
, Anne Bacon
, Katherine Chidley
(as the pamphlet antagonist of Thomas Edwards |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Elstob | EE
's dedication to Queen Anne
asserts her awareness of being a female pioneer. Another part of her paratext, the preface, defends women's learning and defies both those who set up for Censurers and those... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Violet Fane | The play details the treasonous plot Babington spun to murder Queen Elizabeth
and have Catholic Mary Queen of Scots
assume the throne. Fredeman, William E., and Ira Bruce Nadel, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 35. Gale Research. 35: 77 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Fielding | Its topic was the relationship between Mary Tudor
and her sister Elizabeth
before either of them came to the throne. Jane Collier
's commonplace-book mentions a scene in Sallys Play, in which a character... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Figes | She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and... |
Textual Production | Ford Madox Ford | In this piece FMF
examines patterns in monarchical history to argue that it is profitable that a woman should occupy the highest place of the State. Ford, Ford Madox, and Graham Greene. The Ford Madox Ford Reader. Editor Stang, Sondra J., Carcanet. 317 |
Textual Features | Antonia Fraser | AF
says in her Author's Note that it occurred to her while she was working on Oliver Cromwell
that women during the English Civil War would make a more interesting subject. She divides her book... |
Literary Setting | Georgiana Fullerton | Constance Sherwood is represented as the autobiography of its eponymous protagonist, an English gentlewoman living during the reign of Queen Elizabeth
. A devout Roman Catholic, Constance reports the persecutions of the English Reformation, although... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Monica Furlong | She presents her subject as one of the nation's great institutions and as her own spiritual home. She relates its history from the beginnings, in the entwined careers of Thomas Cranmer
, Mary Tudor
... |
Timeline
1910: Bram Stoker published Famous Impostors, a...
Writing climate item
1910
Bram Stoker
published Famous Impostors, a set of sensational biographies which includes a chapter on cross-dressing women (particularly female soldiers like Hannah Snell
), and wild speculation that Queen Elizabeth the First
was actually...
1932: Art historian Kenneth Clark commissioned...
Building item
1932
Art historian Kenneth Clark
commissioned from the Omega Workshops
a set of dinner plates painted by Vanessa Bell
and Duncan Grant
bearing portrait heads of famous women, including Elizabeth I
and other queens, Greta Garbo
December 1965: Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with...
Women writers item
December 1965
Actress Peggy Ashcroft
toured Norway with a show of her own devising, Words on Women and Some Women's Words, originally written for performance at London University
.
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