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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 | Flora Annie Steel | FAS
's historical novel A Prince of Dreamers fictionalised the life of the Great Mughal Akbar
, contemporary of Queen Elizabeth I
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann. 132-3 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 353 (15 October 1908): 348 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Jenkins | |
| Textual Production | Anne Locke | In the year of her second marriage AL
(probably by now Anne Dering) addressed a four-line Latin poem to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
, clearly as a channel to the queen
. Felch, Susan M., and Anne Locke. “Introduction”. Collected Works, edited by Susan M. Felch and Susan M. Felch, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in conjunction with the Renaissance English Text Society, p. i - xc. lviii-lix Felch, Susan M. “’Noble Gentlewomen famous for their learning’: The London Circle of Anne Vaughan Lock”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, Vol. 16 , No. 2, pp. 14-19. 16 |
| Textual Production | Agnes Strickland | Both sisters were indefatigable researchers. They took as their motto Facts, not Opinions Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus. 62 |
| 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 | Elizabeth Montagu | EM
entertained the idea of writing about Elizabeth I
: perhaps a comparison between her and Catherine de Medici
. She had long taken an interest in Elizabeth as a masculine woman exercising power: had... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Williams | The Camden Society
published Letters Written by John Chamberlain
During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, edited by a different Sarah Williams
than her more prolific contemporary of that name; this one died in the... |
| Textual Production | Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke | Queen Elizabeth
was to visit Wilton House, and for the occasion Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
, wrote a brief pastoral dialogue or eclogue: Thenot and Piers in Praise of Astrea. Waller, Gary F. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: A Critical Study of Her Writings and Literary Milieu. University of Salzburg, http://BLC. 80 |
| Textual Production | Sheila Kaye-Smith | SKS
published a number of books of popular theology, such as Sin, 1929, published for the Guild of St Francis of Sales
. 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. |
| Textual Production | Lucy Aikin | With her Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, published in two volumes, LA
launched her work in the particular style of history for which she is best known. Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 18: 542 |
| 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. 233 |
| Textual Production | Rosemary Sutcliff | RS
published her second book, The Queen Elizabeth
Story, through Oxford University Press
, which advertised it as summer reading for children and young people. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 380 |
| 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 | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | MAS
describes several very early writing projects. When her mother gave her a writing-case which locked, to ensure privacy, she spent hours in pouring out the effusions of my own bitter heart, Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. 1: 314 |
| 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 |
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