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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 | Charlotte Smith | In this book the ancient and imposing but crumbling manor house is an emblem of English society as a whole: a trope which was to be popular with later novelists. The downtrodden orphan heroine, Monimia... |
| Textual Features | Sally Purcell | On a Cenotaph quotes a phrase from Baudelaire
's poem Lesbos: the shocking juxtaposition of a dead body with adoration in le cadavre adoré di Sapho
. Though SP
supplied notes to some things... |
| Textual Features | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | One of this novel's topics is concealed identity (which results in repeated changes of name for several central characters). As the story opens, two men land at Dublin (which they find desolate, poverty-struck by the... |
| Textual Features | Penelope Aubin | PA
celebrates recent military victories, and praises Anne
for completing Queen Elizabeth
's work in assuring the strength of the Church of England
. She provides lavish panegyric for every Stuart monarch, as her ravish'd... |
| Textual Features | Anne Hunter | These works, with settings ranging from Scotland to America and India, and speakers facing violent death, conform perfectly to the stark tone of the ballad tradition. In a context of tribal warfare, the courage of... |
| Textual Features | Norah Lofts | The title flags the controversies surrounding its subject: Anne's marriage gave her her place in history, but according to this novel the king did not have marriage in his mind when he began his pursuit... |
| Textual Features | Lucy Hutchinson | LH
's opening address To my Children (probably written after the body of the work) describes John Hutchinson
's appearance and virtues—which, she writes, need no panegyric but will appear most glorious in a plain... |
| Textual Features | Claire Luckham | This episodic play traces the course of Anne Boleyn's relations with King Henry VIII
from 1526 to her execution on 19 May 1536, ending with news of this event. It focuses on the early years... |
| Textual Features | Antonia Fraser | AF
says in her Author's Note that it occurred to her while she was working on Oliver Cromwell
that women during the English Civil War would make a more interesting subject. She divides her book... |
| Textual Features | Amelia Opie | Both in an Address to the Editor and in a series of explanatory footnotes, AO
positions herself on the one hand as a historian with a proper regard for available evidence, and on the other... |
| Textual Features | Carola Oman | Her introduction disappointingly says nothing personal, nothing about Oman's association with Hertfordshire. It is in effect a biography, thorough and sometimes humorous, of Chauncy, taking in his forebears, descendants, and legal career. His topographical work... |
| 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 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 | Josephine Tey | The play grew out of an argument with Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
(Daviot's friend since they met on the set of Richard of Bordeaux) about Mary Stuart
's character. (At that time Daviot sided with Elizabeth of England |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
's next two Victoria Holt novels appeared in 1966 and 1967: Menfreya (published in the USA as Menfreya in the Morning) and The King of the Castle, respectively. She then allowed Holt... |
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