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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucy Aikin | LA
's preface denies the absurd notion that absolute gender equality might be feasible and advises women not to attempt to become inferior men. But she asserts, there is not an endowment, or propensity, or... |
| 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 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Bacon | |
| politics | Anne Bacon | In spite of her Puritan convictions AB
pledged her allegiance without delay to the Catholic Queen Mary
and was later a gentlewoman of the privy chamber. She thus benefited the male members of her family... |
| Occupation | Anne Bacon | |
| Education | Mary Basset | Mary Roper (later MB
) was taught as a child to read Greek and Latin. Her mother tried to get Roger Ascham
to teach her, but found him unwilling to leave Cambridge University. (He did... |
| 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 Production | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | EOB
turned to history in her next biography, Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, mother of Elizabeth I
. Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 25: 273 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Despite her subject, EOB
refrains from demonizing Queen Elizabeth
. She goes into great detail about the cultural milieu in which Mary grew up (the sixteenth-century French court) and uses unpublished letters to add depth... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Enid Blyton | It was made of the same mix as Sunny Stories: a letter from the editor, nature notes, stories, strip cartoons, serials, puzzles and competitions, letters from child readers, and the organisation of fund-raising for... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Boyd | EB
endorses Haddock
's blockade of Spain. She opens on England's greatness in the days When Great Eliza
fill'd the British Throne; she praises Elizabeth for her decision not to marry Philip of Spain |
| Literary Setting | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | Each title-page proclaims: If the cap fits, wear it—perhaps acknowledging the à clef element of the story. Bradshaw, Mary Ann Cavendish. Memoirs of Maria, Countess d’Alva. William Miller, 1808, 2 vols. 1: title-page |
| Textual Features | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | The novel consists largely of the personal histories of its (good) central characters, told severally in flashback. Maria's relates, with documents, how her father died young, leaving her co-heiress with her sister, while her violent-tempered... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Bradstreet | AB
was writing poetry while still in her teens. Langland
's Piers Plowman, Sir Philip Sidney
and the Countess of Pembroke
(whose mother, like AB
, was born a Dudley), and Camden
's life... |
Timeline
1582: Thomas Bentley edited The Monument of Matrones,...
Women writers item
1582
Thomas Bentley
edited The Monument of Matrones, an important anthology containing writings by women, mostly religious.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Horton, Louise. “’Restore Me That Am Lost’: Recovering the Forgotten History of Lady Abergavenny’s Prayers”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
26
, No. 1, Feb. 2019, pp. 3-14. 5
13 July 1584: A reconnaissance expedition sent by Sir Walter...
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13 July 1584
A reconnaissance expedition sent by Sir Walter Ralegh or Raleigh
landed in North America, in what became the colony of Virginia. The next summer Ralegh, having received a patent or royal permission as a colonist...
Between late 1584 and early 1585: Francis Bacon wrote his Letter of Advice...
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Between late 1584 and early 1585
Francis Bacon
wrote his Letter of Advice to Queen Elizabeth.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
20-21 September 1586: Anthony Babington and six other Roman Catholics...
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20-21 September 1586
Anthony Babington
and six other Roman Catholics
were executed for high treason (plotting to murder Queen Elizabeth
with the intention of putting Mary, Queen of Scots
, on the throne).
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
8 February 1587: Mary Queen of Scots was executed at Fotheringay...
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8 February 1587
Mary Queen of Scots
was executed at Fotheringay Castle in England.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
251
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
161
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
425
1588: Elizabeth I licensed a company for trading...
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1588
Elizabeth I
licensed a company for trading to Africa.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
under Africa
26 July 1588: Queen Elizabeth granted a patent or royal...
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26 July 1588
Queen Elizabeth
granted a patent or royal licence for the first system of real shoirthand, invented by the writing-master Peter Bales
and by Timothy Bright
.
23 January 1590: Edmund Spenser dated (using the old-style...
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23 January 1590
Edmund Spenser
dated (using the old-style reckoning of 1589) his letter to Sir Walter Raleghexpounding his whole intention in the first three books of The Faerie Queene, which was published soon afterwards.
Spenser, Edmund. The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. Editors Smith, James Cruikshank and Ernest De Selincourt, Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1916.
407-8, 394
1591: Calligrapher Esther Inglis presented one...
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1591
Calligrapher Esther Inglis
presented one of her earliest works, a verse Discours de la foi, to Queen Elizabeth I
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
3 March 1592: Elizabeth I granted the founding charter...
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3 March 1592
Elizabeth I
granted the founding charter for Trinity College, Dublin.
Maxwell, Constantia. A History of Trinity College, Dublin, 1591-1892. University Press, Trinity College, 1946.
4-5
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
49
7 June 1594: Dr Roderigo Lopez, a Portuguese Jew who had...
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7 June 1594
Dr Roderigo Lopez
, a Portuguese Jew who had lived thirty-five years in England, most of them at the head of the medical profession, was executed for his alleged part in a plot to...
19 November 1594: Edmund Spenser's Amoretti (sonnets) and Epithalamium...
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19 November 1594
Edmund Spenser
's Amoretti (sonnets) and Epithalamium were entered in the Stationers' Register
.
Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
March 1599: Queen Elizabeth sent her young favourite...
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March 1599
Queen Elizabeth
sent her young favourite the Earl of Essex
to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant with a large army to crush Tyrone
's Rebellion.
Lee, Sophia. The Recess. Editor Alliston, April, University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
353n37, 355n4, 356n11
14 April 1599: Sir John Davies registered with the Stationers'...
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14 April 1599
Sir John Davies
registered with the Stationers' Company
the first of the two well-known works he published this year, essays entitled NosceTeipsum (Know Thyself).
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
7 February 1601: Followers of the Earl of Essex attended a...
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7 February 1601
Followers of the Earl of Essex
attended a play at the Globe Theatre, the day before rising against Queen Elizabeth
: this has been taken, probably wrongly, to demonstrate the theatre's political power.
Gutierrez, Nancy A. "Shall She Famish Then?". Ashgate, 2003.
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