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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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...
Reception Sophia Lee
The Recess was highly influential: in its basic technique of inserting fictive persons among actual historical ones, in its polarization of Elizabeth and Mary , and in its heavily sentimental tone. Writers directly influenced by...
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, 1996.
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Reception Anne Locke
Sanford's work is an updating and revision of The Garden of Pleasure, his translation published in 1573 from the Italian of Ludovico Guicciardini . His celebration of learned women of all nations and generations...
Reception Anna Hume
AH 's vigorous heroic couplets were called the finest version of Petrarch before the twentieth century by George Watson in his bibliography of Petrarch in English, 1967.
Watson, George. The English Petrarchans. Warburg Institute, 1967.
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(Watson noted a marked avoidance of direct...
Residence Barbara Cartland
Part of the appeal of Camfield Place for her was its storied history: an oak tree in the garden is said to mark the place where Elizabeth I shot her first stag, and from 1867...
Residence Anne Locke
AL and her family left Geneva to return to London following the accession of the Protestant Elizabeth in November 1558.
Morin-Parsons, Kel, and Anne Locke. “Preface, Introduction, Textual Note”. A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner, edited by Kel Morin-Parsons and Kel Morin-Parsons, North Waterloo Academic Press, 1997, pp. 9-40.
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Residence Jean Plaidy
Many of the royal characters in her historical novels had visited this half-timbered house, which dates back to 1400 and performed the function of a lodging for pilgrims heading for Canterbury. The main doorway, in...
Textual Features Mary Caesar
MC begins with a commemorative account of the dealings of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (First Lord of the Treasury under Queen Anne ), with her husband, Charles Caesar . It was news of...
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...
Textual Features Jean Plaidy
This novel describes the years of Mary's imprisonment by Elizabeth . Its plots, counterplots and torture, the desperate appeals written by its protagonist to potential supporters from her various dank prisons, are all over-shadowed by...
Textual Features Catharine Macaulay
The first two volumes carried the story from Queen Elizabeth 's death to 1641.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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Textual Features Anne Grant
Leaving these images of militarism and turning back to Britain with Princess Charlotte in mind, AGcast[s] a forward glance to hope again / Protracted blessings in a female reign,
Grant, Anne. Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. Ballantyne, 1814.
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looking to Charlotte to...
Textual Features Simone de Beauvoir
SB produces a treatise rather than a polemic, using a studied moderation of tone. She deploys an artful range of styles and her material is drawn from biology, history, sociology, economics, and in a large...
Textual Features Elinor James
James's strong admonitory style has much in common with that of religious prophets. She is equally ready to cross swords with Quakers and Dissenters on the one hand and Catholics on the other, to venerate...

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