Queen Elizabeth I

07 September 1533 - 24 March 1603

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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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 in New Harmony, Indiana. That is, the first public address...
politics	Katherine Parr	KP supervised the education, encouraged the writing, and tried to form the minds of her new batch of step-children: Mary , Elizabeth , and Edward . (Susan E. James in the Oxford Dictionary of...
politics	Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit	Elizabeth Tyrwhit and her husband were given custody for a few months of Princess, later Queen, Elizabeth , replacing her governess Katherine Astley —who, however, was then reinstated. Tyrwhit, Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers, edited by Susan M. Felch, Ashgate, 2008, pp. 1-51. 11-12 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
politics	Anne Bacon	In spite of her Puritan convictions AB pledged her allegiance without delay to the Catholic Queen Mary and was later a gentlewoman of the privy chamber. She thus benefited the male members of her family...
politics	Mary Caesar	From the time she began writing her Jacobite credo in 1724, MC worked on constructing a domestic cult for the edification of family and friends in the Jacobite faith, in which archives, pictures and poetry...
politics	Anne Locke	Entertaining Knox was a politically dangerous thing for Locke and her husband to do under Queen Mary . A few years later, when Anne Locke left England, her motives no doubt included a religio-political element—she...
Author summary	Agnes Wenman	Agnes, Lady Wenman , a Catholic gentlewoman who married an Anglican in the later years of Queen Elizabeth , left one identified text: a translation from French of a work of ancient history, written originally...
Publishing	Katherine Parr	While it was often called The Queen's Prayers, the first edition copy used for Women Writers Online (http://www.wwp.northeastern.edu) is titled Prayers Stirryng the Mynd unto Heavenlye Medytacions collected oute of holy workes. The...
Publishing	Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette	This book, set in the period which in England was Elizabethan , became notorious before publication through private salon readings. When published in Paris by Barbin , with the author's name withheld, it was immediately...
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...
Publishing	Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit	The work had been entered in the Stationers' Register some time during the year following 22 July 1569. Tyrwhit, Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers, edited by Susan M. Felch, Ashgate, 2008, pp. 1-51. 50n17 The single surviving copy, now in the British Library , is identified in an inscription on...
Publishing	Jean Plaidy	In 1961 JP published under this name two historical novels for young people: The Young Elizabeth, illustrated by William Randell , and Meg Roper : Daughter of Sir Thomas More. Plaidy, Jean, and William Randell. The Young Elizabeth. Roy Publishers, 1961. title-page OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing	Marguerite de Navarre	This was translated by the young Queen Elizabeth , whose version was printed at London in 1548 as A Godly Medytacyon of the Cristen Sowle. An electronic version of a nineteenth-century text is available...
Publishing	Elizabeth Jenkins	This was followed in later 1955 by Ten Fascinating Women (whose title, again, EJ hated but whose text she very much enjoyed writing). She did not think highly of Sampson Low as a publisher, but...
Publishing	Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke	Her version of the opening two chapters of Petrarch's Triumph of Death was first (very inaccurately) published in 1912. Waller, Gary F. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: A Critical Study of Her Writings and Literary Milieu. University of Salzburg, 1979, http://BLC. 143 It appears, from a manuscript now held by the Inner Temple in London, as...

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1910

Bram Stoker published Famous Impostors, a set of sensational biographies which includes a chapter on cross-dressing women (particularly female soldiers like Hannah Snell ), and wild speculation that Queen Elizabeth the First was actually...

1932

Art historian Kenneth Clark commissioned from the Omega Workshops a set of dinner plates painted by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant bearing portrait heads of famous women, including Elizabeth I and other queens, Greta Garbo

December 1965

Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with a show of her own devising, Words on Women and Some Women's Words, originally written for performance at London University .

Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991.

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