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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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elinor James
EJ here brings together her unfailing concern for the Church of England with homage to Elizabeth , who presided over the church's infancy. She also defends the memory of Charles I , with a threatening...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Deverell
In a prologue MD jokes about her own daring to judge Queen Elizabeth. Her language is formal and stilted, but she has a strong dramatic grasp of the complex and shifting feelings of Mary and...
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 Enid Blyton
It was made of the same mix as Sunny Stories: a letter from the editor, nature notes, stories, strip cartoons, serials, puzzles and competitions, letters from child readers, and the organisation of fund-raising for...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Dowriche
Critic Elaine V. Beilin discerns the influence on AD 's text of John Foxe 's Actes and Monuments, 1563.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
172
Her comment on the martyrdom of de Bourg is particularly explicit in its critique...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Boyd
EB endorses Haddock 's blockade of Spain. She opens on England's greatness in the days When Great Eliza fill'd the British Throne; she praises Elizabeth for her decision not to marry Philip of Spain
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Bradstreet
In her Elegy Upon . . . Sidney, In Honour of Du Bartas, and In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory, AB pays measured and solemn...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Jenkins
The ten women here share varying degrees and varying combinations of sexual, political, or literary notoriety. Two of them—Elizabeth Inchbald and Lady Blessington —hold the status of professional authors. Two more—Becky Wells (whom...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Seymour Montague
The third epistle performs the conventional act of praising historical women: the monarchs Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great of Russia for their exercise of power, the French scholar Anne Dacier , and eleven British...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary More
MM believes that she is saying something new and not commonly known when she argues that male power over women has grown gradually by unjust laws. She sets out by quoting from and commenting on...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Evelyn Waugh
Waugh emphasized that his book was popular, not scholarly. It opens with an account of Elizabeth on her deathbed as an old perjured woman, dying without comfort, and reflects throughout the story its author's regret...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Ann Kelty
She covers the Reformation from John Wycliffe (born in 1324), to the reign of Queen Elizabeth .
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Violet Fane
The play details the treasonous plot Babington spun to murder Queen Elizabeth and have Catholic Mary Queen of Scots assume the throne.
Fredeman, William E., and Ira Bruce Nadel, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 35. Gale Research, 1985.
35: 77
Babington and his associates were executed with great cruelty on 18-19...

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