Queen Elizabeth I

07 September 1533 - 24 March 1603

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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Textual Production	Rumer Godden	RG wrote the life of an even more unusual literary figure in Gulbadan: Portrait of a Rose Princess at the Mughal Court, 1980. Gulbadan (whose life-span coincides with that of Elizabeth I , except...
Literary Setting	Elizabeth Goudge	Towers in the Mist, the second book in this main series, is set in a different cathedral city, Oxford (more precisely in Christ Church ), during the reign of Elizabeth I , and the...
Family and Intimate relationships	Grace, Lady Mildmay	After the wedding Anthony was active in royal service and often away from home: for the first twenty years of the marriage he was elsewhere for about half of the time. He was knighted in...
Textual Features	Anne Grant	Leaving these images of militarism and turning back to Britain with Princess Charlotte in mind, AGcast[s] a forward glance to hope again / Protracted blessings in a female reign, Grant, Anne. Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. Ballantyne. 48 looking to Charlotte to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Sarah Green	This novel, a third-person narrative, opens arrestingly—It was a cold, and dreary evening, in the month of October 1548 Green, Sarah. The Royal Exile; or, Victims of Human Passions: An Historical Romance of the Sixteenth Century. J. J. Stockdale. 1: 1 —on the French Count d'Almaile's discovery of a female skeleton in her coffin...
Textual Production	Augusta Gregory	The stories center on the folklore of Kiltartan, the district where AG lived. They were gathered from conversations with old men and women, including workhouse wards and people she met on the roads. The...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Sarah Josepha Hale	In her preface SJH quotes a Blackwood's article on Hemans which says the many contemporary women with cultivated minds have made it highly feminine to be intelligent. Hale herself somewhat puzzlingly adds that the Bible...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Jane Harvey	The contents include descriptive and melancholy sonnets, satire, autobiography, and politics (including a poem on the horrors of slavery, addressed to William Wilberforce , and another about the sorrow of a woman whose lover has...
Textual Features	Mary Hays	Though occasionally sketchy (it gives Elizabeth Elstob , for instance, four lines), this is a work of real research, from a consistently feminist point of view. MH investigates the question of women in power with...
Publishing	Mary Hays	She was commissioned to produce this work for the occasion of Queen Caroline's trial, by the publishers T. and J. Allman . Its frontispiece shows Caroline flanked by portraits of Queen Elizabeth , but...
Textual Production	Eliza Haywood	For this she admitted to using fifteen or sixteen previous lives written in French. Part of her aim is to defend Mary against partisans of Queen Elizabeth . Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto. 233
Travel	Margaret Hoby	They also made frequent winter visits to London: in 1600-1 in connection with their court case against William Eure , again in April-June 1603 for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth (a visit that was...
Family and Intimate relationships	Susanna Hopton	Susanna's father, Sir Simon Harvey , was at the top of the grocery business. He had borne the title of Royal Grocer under Elizabeth I and James I , and became Clerk of Greencloth (overseeing...
Reception	Anna Hume	AH 's vigorous heroic couplets were called the finest version of Petrarch before the twentieth century by George Watson in his bibliography of Petrarch in English, 1967. Watson, George. The English Petrarchans. Warburg Institute. 1n (Watson noted a marked avoidance of direct...
Textual Features	Lucy Hutchinson	LH 's opening address To my Children (probably written after the body of the work) describes John Hutchinson 's appearance and virtues—which, she writes, need no panegyric but will appear most glorious in a plain...

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