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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 Sort descending | Author name | 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 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... |
| Literary responses | Catherine Hutton | Hutton transcribed onto the flyleaf of her own copy of Oakwood Hall (volume 3) an unattributed opinion, perhaps given before publication. This critic calls the book clever so far as it is a novel, and... |
| 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... |
| Literary Setting | Virginia Woolf | The protagonist of Orlando notoriously begins as a sixteen-year-old romantic boy in the attic of a palatial great house in the late sixteenth century, practising sword-thrusts at the shrunken head of a Moor killed by... |
| Literary Setting | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | Each title-page proclaims: If the cap fits, wear it—perhaps acknowledging the à clef element of the story. Bradshaw, Mary Ann Cavendish. Memoirs of Maria, Countess d’Alva. William Miller, 1808, 2 vols. 1: title-page |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Literary Setting | Georgiana Fullerton | Constance Sherwood is represented as the autobiography of its eponymous protagonist, an English gentlewoman living during the reign of Queen Elizabeth
. A devout Roman Catholic, Constance reports the persecutions of the English Reformation, although... |
| Literary Setting | Elizabeth Goudge | Towers in the Mist, the second book in this main series, is set in a different cathedral city, Oxford (more precisely in Christ Church
), during the reign of Elizabeth I
, and the... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Violet Trefusis | Around 1924, when VT
was attending classes at the Sorbonne
, she wrote a play (unpublished and probably unperformed) about Mary, Queen of Scots
and Elizabeth I
titled Les soeurs ennemies. Sharpe, Henrietta. A Solitary Woman: A Life of Violet Trefusis. Constable, 1981. 79 |
| Occupation | Frances Wright | FW
delivered what was said to be the first public address by a woman on a public occasion before a large mixed audience Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984. 171 That is, the first public address... |
| Occupation | Lady Anne Clifford | Part of LAC
's growing up took place at Elizabeth
's court. While being groomed for a career there, she say that she was much beloved by that Renowned Queene Elizabeth. qtd. in Holmes, Martin. Proud Northern Lady: Lady Anne Clifford, 1590-1676. Phillimore, 1975. 6 |
| Occupation | Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit | Elizabeth Tyrwhit
's life at Court took a different turn after Katherine Parr
's marriage to Henry VIII
(on 12 July 1543). She participated with the queen and a whole group of court ladies in... |
| Occupation | E. Nesbit | A few years later she believed, as if she had entered into one of her own fantasies for children, that she had found out the Shakespeare cipher, which comes out as definitely as the result... |
Timeline
25 February 1601: The Earl of Essex was executed in the Tower...
National or international item
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.
Lee, Sophia. The Recess. Editor Alliston, April, University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
359n50
23 March 1603: The English conquest of Ireland was completed...
National or international item
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
.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
270
Boylan, Henry, editor. A Dictionary of Irish Biography. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
24 March 1603: On Queen Elizabeth's death, James I (James...
National or international item
24 March 1603
On Queen Elizabeth
's death, James I
(James VI of Scotland) assumed the throne.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
425
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
43-4
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
285
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
166
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
.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
326
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
.
Woolf, Daniel. The Idea of History in Early Stuart England. University of Toronto Press, 1990.
119
1631: John Taylor published The Needles Excellency:...
Building item
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.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
17 March 1677: Nathaniel Lee's tragedy The Rival Queens...
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17 March 1677
Nathaniel Lee
's tragedy The Rival Queens opened on stage.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
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.
Dobson, Michael. “Lost Mother”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, pp. 10-13.
11
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 322, 323
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.
Backscheider, Paula R. “The Shadow of an Author: Eliza Haywood”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
11
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 79-102. 97-8
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 532
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.
Zeitz, Lisa M. “Constructing the Past, Construing the Future: Time and History in the Garden Space of Stowe”. Lumen, Vol.
xviii
, 1999, pp. 201-13. 204, 205
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.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
11 (1754): 241
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.
Snell, Susan. “Enlightenment Females and Freemasonry”. Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, Vol.
4
, No. 1-2, 2013. 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 historical novel Tyborne, and 'who went thither in the days of Queen Elizabeth'.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Dickens, Mary Angela. Mother Magdalen Taylor. Catholic Truth Society, 1928.
12
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
115-17
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