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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Textual Features Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
One of this novel's topics is concealed identity (which results in repeated changes of name for several central characters). As the story opens, two men land at Dublin (which they find desolate, poverty-struck by the...
Textual Production Rosemary Sutcliff
RS published her second book, The Queen Elizabeth Story, through Oxford University Press , which advertised it as summer reading for children and young people.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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Birth Lady Arbella Stuart
LAS was born, under the displeasure of Queen Elizabeth . Her most likely birthplace is Lennox House in Hackney (now part of London).
Stuart, Lady Arbella. “Introduction and Textual Introduction”. The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart, edited by Sara Jayne Steen et al., Oxford University Press, pp. 1-113.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Employer Lady Arbella Stuart
LAS became a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth in 1588, but with unspoken restrictions on her conduct. She was quite soon dismissed for infringing them.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Agnes Strickland
Both sisters were indefatigable researchers. They took as their motto Facts, not Opinions
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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(though they were more willing to editorialise than the motto might suggest). They lobbied politicians, pulling every possible string to secure...
Literary responses Agnes Strickland
Lives of the Queens of England was frequently reprinted with additions and revisions; the 1852 edition, regarded as definitive, was reprinted in 1972 with an introduction by the Stricklands' fellow-biographer Antonia Fraser . Fraser 's...
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. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann.
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TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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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.
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but she nevertheless...
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 Production Edith Sitwell
ES published a second biography of a queen: Fanfare for Elizabeth.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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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. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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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 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.
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Cumpston, Mary. “The Contribution to Ideas of Empire of Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard”. Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 64-75.
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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...

Timeline

1582: Thomas Bentley edited The Monument of Matrones,...

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1582

Thomas Bentley edited The Monument of Matrones, an important anthology containing writings by women, mostly religious.

13 July 1584: A reconnaissance expedition sent by Sir Walter...

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13 July 1584

A reconnaissance expedition sent by Sir Walter Ralegh or Raleigh landed in North America, in what became the colony of Virginia. The next summer Ralegh, having received a patent or royal permission as a colonist...

Between late 1584 and early 1585: Francis Bacon wrote his Letter of Advice...

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Between late 1584 and early 1585

Francis Bacon wrote his Letter of Advice to Queen Elizabeth.

20-21 September 1586: Anthony Babington and six other Roman Catholics...

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20-21 September 1586

Anthony Babington and six other Roman Catholics were executed for high treason (plotting to murder Queen Elizabeth with the intention of putting Mary, Queen of Scots , on the throne).

8 February 1587: Mary Queen of Scots was executed at Fotheringay...

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8 February 1587

Mary Queen of Scots was executed at Fotheringay Castle in England.

1588: Elizabeth I licensed a company for trading...

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1588

Elizabeth I licensed a company for trading to Africa.

26 July 1588: Queen Elizabeth granted a patent or royal...

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26 July 1588

Queen Elizabeth granted a patent or royal licence for the first system of real shoirthand, invented by the writing-master Peter Bales and by Timothy Bright .

23 January 1590: Edmund Spenser dated (using the old-style...

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23 January 1590

Edmund Spenser dated (using the old-style reckoning of 1589) his letter to Sir Walter Raleghexpounding his whole intention in the first three books of The Faerie Queene, which was published soon afterwards.

1591: Calligrapher Esther Inglis presented one...

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1591

Calligrapher Esther Inglis presented one of her earliest works, a verse Discours de la foi, to Queen Elizabeth I .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

3 March 1592: Elizabeth I granted the founding charter...

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3 March 1592

Elizabeth I granted the founding charter for Trinity College, Dublin.

7 June 1594: Dr Roderigo Lopez, a Portuguese Jew who had...

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7 June 1594

Dr Roderigo Lopez , a Portuguese Jew who had lived thirty-five years in England, most of them at the head of the medical profession, was executed for his alleged part in a plot to...

19 November 1594: Edmund Spenser's Amoretti (sonnets) and Epithalamium...

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19 November 1594

Edmund Spenser 's Amoretti (sonnets) and Epithalamium were entered in the Stationers' Register .

March 1599: Queen Elizabeth sent her young favourite...

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March 1599

Queen Elizabeth sent her young favourite the Earl of Essex to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant with a large army to crush Tyrone 's Rebellion.

14 April 1599: Sir John Davies registered with the Stationers'...

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14 April 1599

Sir John Davies registered with the Stationers' Company the first of the two well-known works he published this year, essays entitled NosceTeipsum (Know Thyself).

7 February 1601: Followers of the Earl of Essex attended a...

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7 February 1601

Followers of the Earl of Essex attended a play at the Globe Theatre, the day before rising against Queen Elizabeth : this has been taken, probably wrongly, to demonstrate the theatre's political power.

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