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.
Full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, by the school of Nicholas Hilliard, 1590. Behind her two hovering angels prepare to crown her. She wears formal and elaborate clothes: tight blonde curls, a ruff, a stiff bodice, petticoat and over-skirt in intricate brocade patterns, deep lace cuffs, strings of pearls and several rings. A lengthy Latin inscription calls her an invincible virgin, mistress of all sciences, founder of Jesus College, Oxford, where the painting hangs.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 Features Claire Luckham
This episodic play traces the course of Anne Boleyn's relations with King Henry VIII from 1526 to her execution on 19 May 1536, ending with news of this event. It focuses on the early years...
Textual Production Lady Jane Lumley
Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth also translated a Greek tragedy at a precocious age, but her text does not survive. This non-survival and non-publication left it for Mary, Countess of Pembroke , to become the first...
Textual Features Catharine Macaulay
The first two volumes carried the story from Queen Elizabeth 's death to 1641.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catharine Macaulay
CM sought to memorialise the men whose struggles had secured the reputation of England as a nation of liberty at the time of the Civil War, while believing that oppression in England had begun when...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Maria Mackenzie
The epigraph on the first title-page is the sonnet by Queen Elizabeth beginning The toppe of hope, now generally known by the title of Doubt of Future Foes. The second volume's title-page is...
Textual Features Hilary Mantel
She is interested in hidden history, in apparently negligible people or objects whose historical significance is apparent only with hindsight, like the ginger-haired baby who would one day be known as Queen Elizabeth or the...
Publishing Marguerite de Navarre
This was translated by the young Queen Elizabeth , whose version was printed at London in 1548 as A Godly Medytacyon of the Cristen Sowle. An electronic version of a nineteenth-century text is available...
Employer Christopher Marlowe
Meanwhile records from summer 1587 indicate that Marlowe was already performing valuable secret services for the queen : that is, he was employed as an intelligence agent or spy, perhaps in the network which Sir Francis Walsingham
Dedications Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke , presented a fine copy of the psalms written by herself and her brother to Queen Elizabeth , with a dedication to her.
Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, http://U of A HSS.
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Textual Production Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Queen Elizabeth was to visit Wilton House, and for the occasion Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke , wrote a brief pastoral dialogue or eclogue: Thenot and Piers in Praise of Astrea.
Waller, Gary F. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: A Critical Study of Her Writings and Literary Milieu. University of Salzburg, http://BLC.
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Family and Intimate relationships Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Mary Sidney's famous uncle, the Earl of Leicester , was one of Elizabeth 's leading courtiers during Mary's youth, and a patron of actors. Of her mother's other two brothers, one became an earl as...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
A few months later Mary came to London, to Elizabeth 's court.
Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, http://U of A HSS.
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Publishing Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Her version of the opening two chapters of Petrarch's Triumph of Death was first (very inaccurately) published in 1912.
Waller, Gary F. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: A Critical Study of Her Writings and Literary Milieu. University of Salzburg, http://BLC.
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It appears, from a manuscript now held by the Inner Temple in London, as...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary, Lady Chudleigh
MLC 's occasions include the public and private. She opens with an ode on the recent death of the queen's only surviving child , in which the speaker, unconventionally, rejects the consolation duly offered by...

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