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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 descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth and Poverty | Lady Anne Clifford | For these ventures, designed to recoup the fortunes he had lost, he had the personal backing and favour of Queen Elizabeth
. He was a man of great courage, and endured terrible hardships during some... |
| Education | Lady Anne Clifford | LAC
was educated first by a governess, Anne Taylor
. Between the ages of nine and twelve she was tutored by the poet Samuel Daniel
, whom her mother engaged for that purpose. But she... |
| 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. Holmes, Martin. Proud Northern Lady: Lady Anne Clifford, 1590-1676. Phillimore. 6 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Anne Clifford | LAC
demonstrates here an acute sense of history which is not a modern sense. Her account of Queen Elizabeth
's funeral leads her to expatiate on the implications of Elizabeth
's reign, as much for... |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Liddell was to remain one of ICB
's close friends. She maintained a benevolent, almost aunt-like relationship with him, and although resident abroad he was an important source of support after Jourdain's death. He later... |
| Textual Production | Isa Craig | Annual Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science began to appear under IC
's editorship, including some of the earliest reports of women's public, modern political speech in Britain. For... |
| Textual Production | Dinah Mulock Craik | Dinah Mulock
published Elizabeth
and Victoria
: From a Woman's Point of View in the feminist Victoria Magazine. Craik, Dinah Mulock. The Unkind Word and Other Stories. Hurst and Blackett. 68 Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 134 |
| Textual Production | May Crommelin | MC
continued to publish during the second decade of the twentieth century; only some of this late output is mentioned here. She returned to Ulster for The Golden Bow, 1912, whose heroine has an... |
| Textual Features | Clemence Dane | Will Shakespeare is written in blank verse, but does not imitate Elizabethan language. Subtitled an invention, the play dramatises Shakespeare
's early career as a writer, focusing on his move from Stratford to London... |
| Reception | Clemence Dane | The US version, first performed in New York on 1 January 1923, was cut. It received some favourable reviews, especially for the characters Anne Hathaway
and Queen Elizabeth
. Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press. 99 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Deverell | |
| 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 |
| Textual Features | Maureen Duffy | While the present-day plot produces a series of surreal confrontations, it is punctuated by a string of glimpses into the past. These begin when Swanscombe Man (the prehistoric human whose bones are the earliest evidence... |
| Textual Features | Amelia B. Edwards | ABE
seizes the attention of her audience from her first paragraph with her claim that to the surprise of scholars, ancient Egyptian woman turns out to have been always free, respected, and in the full... |
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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