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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 | Sophia Lee | A novelette appeared which was clearly a spin-off from SL
's The Recess: it is entitled (in part) Rose Douglas; or, The Court of Elizabeth; its heroine is sole survivor of twins born... |
| Literary Setting | Sophia Lee | An Advertisement claims that The Recess is a version, in modernised English, of a manuscript memoir from the reign of Elizabeth I
. It breaks new ground for the English novel in various ways: it... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sophia Lee | Both sisters become rivals in love to Queen Elizabeth
(following the popular account of romantic interest in Elizabeth's life). Matilda loves, and bears a daughter by, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
. Lee's account of... |
| Reception | Sophia Lee | The Recess was highly influential: in its basic technique of inserting fictive persons among actual historical ones, in its polarization of Elizabeth
and Mary
, and in its heavily sentimental tone. Writers directly influenced by... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | The magazine was published through Newbery
, as by the author of The Female Quixote. Its launch was hailed by Charlotte Forman
(wrapped in the cloak of a male pseudonym) in the Public Ledger... |
| Literary Setting | J. S. Anna Liddiard | The first poem, Kenilworth Castle. A Masque, was published separately at both Dublin and London in 1815 (after the battle of Waterloo put a new face on English patriotism), and is again dedicated to... |
| Textual Features | Liz Lochhead | Mary makes Lochhead's usual exuberant use of Scottish English. LL
based Queen Elizabeth
's character on Margaret Thatcher
(the Thatcher monster). Varty, Anne. “The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 641-58. 651 |
| Residence | Anne Locke | AL
and her family left Geneva to return to London following the accession of the Protestant Elizabeth
in November 1558. Morin-Parsons, Kel, and Anne Locke. “Preface, Introduction, Textual Note”. A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner, edited by Kel Morin-Parsons and Kel Morin-Parsons, North Waterloo Academic Press, pp. 9-40. 23 |
| Textual Production | Anne Locke | In the year of her second marriage AL
(probably by now Anne Dering) addressed a four-line Latin poem to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
, clearly as a channel to the queen
. Felch, Susan M., and Anne Locke. “Introduction”. Collected Works, edited by Susan M. Felch and Susan M. Felch, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in conjunction with the Renaissance English Text Society, p. i - xc. lviii-lix Felch, Susan M. “’Noble Gentlewomen famous for their learning’: The London Circle of Anne Vaughan Lock”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, Vol. 16 , No. 2, pp. 14-19. 16 |
| politics | Anne Locke | Entertaining Knox was a politically dangerous thing for Locke and her husband to do under Queen Mary
. A few years later, when Anne Locke left England, her motives no doubt included a religio-political element—she... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Locke | She was then courted by Edward Dering
, a rising, charismatic, and controversial Protestant preacher who was about ten years her junior. He had recently been so bold as to reprove Queen Elizabeth
from the... |
| Reception | Anne Locke | Sanford's work is an updating and revision of The Garden of Pleasure, his translation published in 1573 from the Italian of Ludovico Guicciardini
. His celebration of learned women of all nations and generations... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Locke | AL
's title-page quotes from Saint Paul
's Epistle to the Romans: The spirit beareth witnesse to our spirit that wee are the sons of God . . . . The sentence goes on... |
| Textual Features | Norah Lofts | The title flags the controversies surrounding its subject: Anne's marriage gave her her place in history, but according to this novel the king did not have marriage in his mind when he began his pursuit... |
| Textual Production | Norah Lofts | NL
published her first historical fiction: Here Was a Man: A Romantic History of Sir Walter
, His Voyages, His Discoveries, and His Queen. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 80 |
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