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.
Full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, by the school of Nicholas Hilliard, 1590. Behind her two hovering angels prepare to crown her. She wears formal and elaborate clothes: tight blonde curls, a ruff, a stiff bodice, petticoat and over-skirt in intricate brocade patterns, deep lace cuffs, strings of pearls and several rings. A lengthy Latin inscription calls her an invincible virgin, mistress of all sciences, founder of Jesus College, Oxford, where the painting hangs.

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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 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.
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In contrast to this topicality, as critic Anne Varty observes, her Queen...
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
this book is feminist in its emphasis on the virtue of independent judgement as...
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...
Textual Features Katherine Chidley
The title exhorts him to begin the new yeare, with new fruits of love, first to God, and then to his brethren.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
The Introduction or Epistle, To the Godly Reader explains why she has taken...
Textual Features Elizabeth Elstob
EE 's first publication consists of a fairly short essay with some poems to fill out the volume. She celebrates Scudéry as a Sappho (one of Scudéry's strong female characters is Sapho) and as...
Textual Production Mrs F. C. Patrick
Historically, Anthony Babington , a member of a wealthy Catholic family in Derbyshire, maintained a correspondence with Mary, Queen of Scots , during her imprisonment. In summer 1586 he informed her that he and a...
Textual Production Evelyn Waugh
EW published his first historical biography, that of Edmund Campion , whom one of his reviewers called the most attractive of the Jesuits who suffered under Queen Elizabeth 's penal administration.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(3 October 1935): 606
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
For this she admitted to using fifteen or sixteen previous lives written in French. Part of her aim is to defend Mary against partisans of Queen Elizabeth .
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto, 2003.
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