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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 ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Maria van Schurman | Having laid out her case, AMS
proceeds to summarise and refute that of her Adversaries. These she classifies as the utilitarian (who value learning purely for its cash or career value) and the envious... |
| Textual Production | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | MAS
describes several very early writing projects. When her mother gave her a writing-case which locked, to ensure privacy, she spent hours in pouring out the effusions of my own bitter heart, Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. 1: 314 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sappho | Sappho
's name was an honorific for women writers for generations. George Puttenham
may have been the first to use it to compliment a writing woman: in Parthienades, 1579, he said that Queen Elizabeth |
| Cultural formation | Vita Sackville-West | She was born into the noble Sackville family, one of the oldest-established in England. Her father, the third Baron Sackville, inherited Knole, the estate given to |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Margaret Sackville | Vita Sackville-West
was LMS
's second cousin: Queen Elizabeth I
had presented their common ancestor, Thomas Sackville
(a minor writer), with Knole, near Sevenoaks, the estate that Vita was barred from inheriting because of... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Roper | The family of Thomas More
were merchants and lawyers of London's bourgeois ruling class: Thomas duly became a lawyer and out of personal passion became a scholar of the new humanist learning. He married again... |
| Literary Setting | Emma Robinson | This was set in the days when the Dutch Protestants in the Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium and part of northern France), led by William of Orange
(that is, William the Silent, 1533-84), rebelled... |
| Textual Features | Mary Robinson | |
| Textual Features | Sally Purcell | On a Cenotaph quotes a phrase from Baudelaire
's poem Lesbos: the shocking juxtaposition of a dead body with adoration in le cadavre adoré di Sapho
. Though SP
supplied notes to some things... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sally Purcell | These poems dwell in SP
's familiar territory of icy waters, towers and forests, dreaming stones, desert saints, and mythological fauns and mermaids. March 1603 presents Queen Elizabeth
on her deathbed, with a sword by... |
| Textual Production | Diana Primrose | The only known work by the unidentified DP
, A Chaine of Pearle; or, a Memorial of . . . Queen Elizabeth (a sequence of ten poems) was entered in the Stationers' Register
; it... |
| Publishing | Diana Primrose | The full title of this tribute (to a reign which had ended a generation previously) was A Chaine of Pearle; or, a Memorial of the Peerles [sic] Graces and Heroick Vertues of Queen Elizabeth, of... |
| Residence | Jean Plaidy | Many of the royal characters in her historical novels had visited this half-timbered house, which dates back to 1400 and performed the function of a lodging for pilgrims heading for Canterbury. The main doorway, in... |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | The next year, 1955, saw the publication of JP
's Tudor novel Gay Lord Robert, about Elizabeth I
and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
(whose title was initially Lord Robert, since he was... |
Timeline
25 February 1601: The Earl of Essex was executed in the Tower...
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25 February 1601
The Earl of Essex
was executed in the Tower of London on the orders of Queen Elizabeth
; she was said to be much upset, but was deaf to all appeals for clemency.
23 March 1603: The English conquest of Ireland was completed...
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23 March 1603
The English conquest of Ireland was completed when Hugh O'Neill
submitted to the English forces there; he would not have done this had he known of the imminent death of Queen Elizabeth
.
24 March 1603: On Queen Elizabeth's death, James I (James...
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24 March 1603
On Queen Elizabeth
's death, James I
(James VI of Scotland) assumed the throne.
1611: John Speed published his History of Great...
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1611
John Speed
published his History of Great Britaine, an early attempt at national history as continuous narrative; it is remembered in part for the maps, by Christopher Saxton
and others, in its early sections.
Before 29 June 1613: Henry VIII, by Shakespeare (probably with...
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Before 29 June 1613
Henry VIII, by Shakespeare
(probably with the collaboration of Fletcher
), had its first performance: when it was acted on this date, a fire broke out which destroyed the Globe Theatre
.
By 8 June 1615: Antiquary and historian William Camden anonymously...
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By 8 June 1615
Antiquary and historian William Camden
anonymously published the first part of his Annales, a Latin history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth
.
1631: John Taylor published The Needles Excellency:...
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1631
John Taylor
published The Needles Excellency: A New Booke wherin are divers Admirable Workes wrought with the Needle, which includes (along with hints on embroidery) praise of great ladies.
17 March 1677: Nathaniel Lee's tragedy The Rival Queens...
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17 March 1677
Nathaniel Lee
's tragedyThe Rival Queens opened on stage.
1684: John Banks's tragedy The Island Queens (which...
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1684
John Banks
's tragedy The Island Queens (which featured Mary Queen of Scots
as heroine and Elizabeth I
as villain) was defiantly published after having been banned from the stage.
By September 1735: Merlin's Cave at Richmond in Surrey, brainchild...
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By September 1735
Merlin's Cave at Richmond in Surrey, brainchild of Queen Caroline
, was opened to the public.
By September 1735: The gardens of Lord Cobham at Stowe in Buckinghamshire...
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By September 1735
The gardens of Lord Cobham
at Stowe in Buckinghamshire were complete enough to be written up in The Daily Gazetteer.
By October 1754: Thomas Birch published his Memoirs of the...
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By October 1754
Thomas Birch
published his Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.
June 1793: An enterprising printer and freemason, John...
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June 1793
An enterprising printer and freemason, John Wharlton Bunney
, put out the first number of The Free-Mason's Magazine, or General and Complete Library.
1859: Frances Margaret Taylor (as the Authoress...
Women writers item
1859
Frances Margaret Taylor
(as the Authoress of Eastern Hospitals and English Nurses) published her historicalnovelTyborne, and 'who went thither in the days of Queen Elizabeth'.
1876: By this date, women healers were so popular...
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1876
By this date, women healers were so popular among spiritualists that one consultation often cost as much as a guinea.
Texts
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