Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
EJ
here brings together her unfailing concern for the Church of England
with homage to Elizabeth
, who presided over the church's infancy. She also defends the memory of Charles I
, with a threatening...
Literary responses
Catherine Hutton
Hutton transcribed onto the flyleaf of her own copy of Oakwood Hall (volume 3) an unattributed opinion, perhaps given before publication. This critic calls the book clever so far as it is a novel, and...
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...
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.
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(Watson noted a marked avoidance of direct...
Family and Intimate relationships
Susanna Hopton
Susanna's father, Sir Simon Harvey
, was at the top of the grocery business. He had borne the title of Royal Grocer under Elizabeth I
and James I
, and became Clerk of Greencloth (overseeing...
Travel
Margaret Hoby
They also made frequent winter visits to London: in 1600-1 in connection with their court case against William Eure
, again in April-June 1603 for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth
(a visit that was...
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.
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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...
Publishing
Mary Hays
She was commissioned to produce this work for the occasion of Queen Caroline's trial, by the publishers T. and J. Allman
. Its frontispiece shows Caroline flanked by portraits of Queen Elizabeth
, but...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Jane Harvey
The contents include descriptive and melancholy sonnets, satire, autobiography, and politics (including a poem on the horrors of slavery, addressed to William Wilberforce
, and another about the sorrow of a woman whose lover has...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sarah Josepha Hale
In her preface SJH
quotes a Blackwood's article on Hemans
which says the many contemporary women with cultivated minds have made it highly feminine to be intelligent. Hale herself somewhat puzzlingly adds that the Bible...
Textual Production
Augusta Gregory
The stories center on the folklore of Kiltartan, the district where AG
lived. They were gathered from conversations with old men and women, including workhouse wards and people she met on the roads. The...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sarah Green
This novel, a third-person narrative, opens arrestingly—It was a cold, and dreary evening, in the month of October 1548
Green, Sarah. The Royal Exile; or, Victims of Human Passions: An Historical Romance of the Sixteenth Century. J. J. Stockdale.
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—on the French Count d'Almaile's discovery of a female skeleton in her coffin...
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.
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looking to Charlotte to...
Family and Intimate relationships
Grace, Lady Mildmay
After the wedding Anthony was active in royal service and often away from home: for the first twenty years of the marriage he was elsewhere for about half of the time. He was knighted in...
