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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.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | A biographical lecture on Queen Elizabeth
(originally addressed to Working Women's College
students) is also reprinted. The lecture begins: Queen Elizabeth, when first she saw the light of day, was a great disappointment. She was... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Figes | She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emily Lawless | The subtitle gives the text the air of a historical account, dissimulating EL
's authorship: Being extracts from a diary kept in Ireland during the year 1599 by Mr. Henry Harvey, sometime secretary to Robert... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Scott | MS
expands Duncombe's list of Female Geniuses. Scott, Mary, and Gae Holladay. The Female Advocate. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California. iii |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Norah Lofts | The house, Merravay, is seen playing a crucial role in the lives of a series of protagonists named in the chapter titles. They include the apprentice, the witch, the matriarch, the governess, ending after the... |
| 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 | Judith Sargent Murray | She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Melesina Trench | The title poem of Ellen comes from a story lately reported by newspapers. Other pieces (several of them ballads) deal with historical figures like Queen Elizabeth
, Cardinal Wolsey
, an anonymous monk, and the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sophia Lee | Both sisters become rivals in love to Queen Elizabeth
(following the popular account of romantic interest in Elizabeth's life). Matilda loves, and bears a daughter by, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
. Lee's account of... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Monica Furlong | She presents her subject as one of the nation's great institutions and as her own spiritual home. She relates its history from the beginnings, in the entwined careers of Thomas Cranmer
, Mary Tudor
... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Brownell Jameson | Her subjects reach back to the semi-legendary such as Semiramis
and Cleopatra
. ABJ
includes from England Queen Elizabeth
and Queen Anne
and from Europe Maria Theresa
and Catherine the Great
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | The magazine was published through Newbery
, as by the author of The Female Quixote. Its launch was hailed by Charlotte Forman
(wrapped in the cloak of a male pseudonym) in the Public Ledger... |
| 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. 59-60 |
| 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... |
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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