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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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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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| Textual Production | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | She was working on the research for this novel before she married; the work was interrupted by her father's death in May 1812. After it she wrote: He was the object for which I laboured... |
| Textual Production | Norah Lofts | NL
published her first historical fiction: Here Was a Man: A Romantic History of Sir Walter
, His Voyages, His Discoveries, and His Queen. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 80 |
| 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 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | For a young woman who had never attended university (as she of course could not at this time) to offer a translation from a classical language was both courageous and confident. It was a long... |
| Textual Production | Ford Madox Ford | In this piece FMF
examines patterns in monarchical history to argue that it is profitable that a woman should occupy the highest place of the State. Ford, Ford Madox, and Graham Greene. The Ford Madox Ford Reader. Editor Stang, Sondra J., Carcanet. 317 |
| Textual Production | Jan Morris | More than a decade later, in 1978, JM
followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less... |
| Textual Production | Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy | MCA
made what seems to be her first appearance in English, with The Novels of Elizabeth Queen of England
, Containing the history of Queen Ann of Bullen (which represented a part of her Nouvelles... |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | The next year, 1955, saw the publication of JP
's Tudor novel Gay Lord Robert, about Elizabeth I
and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
(whose title was initially Lord Robert, since he was... |
| Textual Production | Bryher | Bryher published six other historical novels: The Player's Boy (1953, reprinted by the Paris Press
of Ashfield, Massachusetts: set in the reign of Elizabeth
and featuring a boy who plays women's parts on stage),... |
| Textual Production | Dinah Mulock Craik | Dinah Mulock
published Elizabeth
and Victoria
: From a Woman's Point of View in the feminist Victoria Magazine. Craik, Dinah Mulock. The Unkind Word and Other Stories. Hurst and Blackett. 68 Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 134 |
| Textual Production | Flora Shaw | In 1883, FS
made plans to write a history of England to be titled From Queen to Queen (Elizabeth
to Victoria
) but she never completed it. Bell, E. Moberly. Flora Shaw. Constable. 43 Cumpston, Mary. “The Contribution to Ideas of Empire of Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard”. Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 5 , No. 1, pp. 64-75. 66 |
| Textual Production | Isa Craig | Annual Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science began to appear under IC
's editorship, including some of the earliest reports of women's public, modern political speech in Britain. For... |
| Textual Production | May Crommelin | MC
continued to publish during the second decade of the twentieth century; only some of this late output is mentioned here. She returned to Ulster for The Golden Bow, 1912, whose heroine has an... |
| Textual Production | Lady Jane Lumley | Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth
also translated a Greek tragedy at a precocious age, but her text does not survive. This non-survival and non-publication left it for Mary, Countess of Pembroke
, to become the first... |
| Textual Production | Elinor James | In This Day Ought Never to be Forgotten, being the Proclamation Day for Queen Elizabeth, EJ
presented a role-model to the new King George
. The date was that of Elizabeth's accession. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 308 |
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