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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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| 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. 26 |
| 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. 48 |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Josephine Tey | Like Richard of Bordeaux, this play follows the troubled career of a less-than-successful ruler and ends with a forced abdication. Daviot's realistic, balanced portrayal of Mary
went against conventional representations of the Queen as... |
| Textual Features | Hilary Mantel | She is interested in hidden history, in apparently negligible people or objects whose historical significance is apparent only with hindsight, like the ginger-haired baby who would one day be known as Queen Elizabeth
or the... |
| Textual Features | Leonora Carrington | The narrative is told in the first person to you, LC
's interlocutor Jeanne Megnen
, and divided into five journal or diary entries dated 23-27 August 1943. Across those entries LC
recounts her... |
| Textual Features | Liz Lochhead | Mary makes Lochhead's usual exuberant use of Scottish English. LL
based Queen Elizabeth
's character on Margaret Thatcher
(the Thatcher monster). qtd. in Varty, Anne. “The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, 1997, pp. 641-58. 651 |
| 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 | Mary Wollstonecraft | Though only about twenty percent of its extracts are written by women (the same proportion as from the Bible), McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 501 |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Mary Hays | Though occasionally sketchy (it gives Elizabeth Elstob
, for instance, four lines), this is a work of real research, from a consistently feminist point of view. MH
investigates the question of women in power with... |
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