Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Queen Mary I
Standard Name: Mary I, Queen
Used Form: Mary Tudor
Connections
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Dedications | Mary Basset | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Bacon | Her husband had six surviving children already. AB
had two daughters (who died young) before her two sons. In August 1557 she was hoping that her daughter Susan might get over her recurring fits of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Basset | MB
's second husband had at the time of their marriage already been imprisoned in the Tower of London; upon Mary Tudor
's accession, James Basset travelled on diplomatic missions between Mary and Philip of Spain |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Caesar | His great-great-father, Cesare Adelmare
, had migrated from Italy to England and become physician to Mary Tudor
and Elizabeth I
. Sedgwick, Romney, editor. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1715-1754. 1970, http://www.histparl.ac.uk/about/publications/1715-1754. Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741) |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Elizabeth I | Elizabeth's elder half-sister, Mary Tudor
, was estranged from her by loyalty to her mother (Catherine of Aragon
, whom Elizabeth's mother had supplanted) and by her fervent Catholicism. The gap narrowed slightly when... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Locke | Henry Locke was a half-brother of the younger Rose Hickman, later Throckmorton
, who at the age of eighty-four wrote for her children a brief but vivid account of her life up to the time... |
Fictionalization | Katherine Parr | Dozens of fictional representations of KP
inhabit the fringes of the many re-imaginings of her husband and her step-daughter; few of them pay any attention to her intellectual life or her writing. She takes centre... |
Literary responses | Georgiana Fullerton | The Athenæum published a positive review of Constance Sherwood on 16 September 1865, claiming that GFhas written a book which no one can read without deep interest; and she has written it in an... |
Literary Setting | Anna Eliza Bray | The novel is set near Canterbury in a village called Wellminster during the reign of Queen Mary
. It details the lives of a persecuted Protestant family. Bray, Anna Eliza. The Novels and Romances of Anna Eliza Bray. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845–1846, 10 vols. 3:1 Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 116: 52 |
Literary Setting | Emmuska Baroness Orczy | The story is set in sixteenth-century England and France in the reign of Charles V
, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. The opening page presents an air of historical evidence in a sentence... |
Occupation | Mary Basset | Mary Tudor
, dedicatee of MB
's translation from Eusebius, made Basset one of her chamber gentlewomen at Court. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Katherine Parr | Before her second husband died, KP
had taken up, like her mother before her, a Court post as lady-in-waiting to Princess Mary
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Katherine Parr | This year she wrote to Mary
in Latin enlisting her support. Devereux, Edward James. “The Publication of the English Paraphrases of Erasmus”. Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Vol. 51 , 1969, pp. 348-57. 351 King, John N. “Patronage and Piety: The Influence of Catherine Parr”. Silent But For the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works, edited by Margaret P. Hannay, Kent State University Press, 1985. 48 |
politics | Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny | FNBA
's husband not only attended the coronation of the Catholic monarch Mary Tudor
on 1 October 1553 (while her eldest brother had just been imprisoned for supporting the rival Protestant candidate Lady Jane Grey |
politics | Lady Jane Lumley | LJL
and her husband attended the coronation of Mary Tudor
. As a Roman Catholic, John, first Baron Lumley
, was a natural Mary supporter, while his wife was cousin to the recently deposed and... |
Timeline
1523: Juan Luis Vives of Valencia, while living...
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1523
Juan Luis Vives
of Valencia, while living in England, wrote Satellitium, a plan of studies for Princess Mary
(daughter of Henry VIII
).
Barbour, Paula L., and Bathsua Makin. “Introduction”. An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1980, p. iii - xi.
v
After July 1553: An unknown person presented to Queen Mary...
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After July 1553
An unknown person presented to Queen Mary Tudor
the finely illuminated manuscript now known as the Queen Mary Psalter (Royal 2 B vii in the British Library
).
Medieval and Early Modern Women: Part 1, Manuscripts from the British Library, London. Adam Matthew, 2000, 14 microfilm reels.
6 July 1553: The sixteen-year-old Edward VI died, producing...
National or international item
6 July 1553
The sixteen-year-old Edward VI
died, producing a succession crisis: for fear of rule by his Catholic
sister Mary
, Edward pronounced both his sisters to be bastards, and the crown passed (very briefly) to Lady Jane Grey
19 July 1553: Lady Jane Grey was deposed as queen, and...
National or international item
19 July 1553
Lady Jane Grey
was deposed as queen, and Mary Tudor
assumed the throne of England and Wales.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
43
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
151
June 1554: An eighteen-year-old servant, Elizabeth Croft,...
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June 1554
An eighteen-year-old servant, Elizabeth Croft
, confessed in front of a crowd gathered at St Paul's Cross in London that she had taken part in a hoax, playing a supernatural voice that spoke from a...
July 1554: One year after succeeding to the throne,...
National or international item
July 1554
One year after succeeding to the throne, Mary Tudor
married Philip of Spain
, thereby strengthening the hand of others who wished, as she did, to re-Catholicize England.
Lee, Sophia. The Recess. Editor Alliston, April, University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
348n7
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
263
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
9: 778
1555: Bridewell Prison, the first house of correction...
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1555
Bridewell Prison
, the first house of correction for vagrants and beggars, was established in the same building as the recently-founded Bridewell Royal Hospital
a residence for apprentices during their training.
Scull, Andrew. The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900. Yale University Press, 1993.
13
Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, editors. The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan, 1983.
February 1555: The law was changed to permit burning alive...
National or international item
February 1555
The law was changed to permit burning alive for heresy: during the rest of Mary I
's reign at least 274 persons were burned in England for their Protestant belief.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
261
Duffy, Eamon. “Rolling Back the Reformation”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 3, 7 Feb. 2008, pp. 27-9. 27-9
21 March 1556: Thomas Cranmer was burned alive for heresy...
National or international item
21 March 1556
Thomas Cranmer
was burned alive for heresy at Oxford, after withdrawing the recantation he had formerly made under threat of such a death: this was one of the most famous Protestant martyrdoms under Mary Tudor
.
Cameron, Jennifer. A Dangerous Innovator: Mary Ward (1585-1645). St Pauls Publications, 2000.
236
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
4 May 1557: The Royal Charter of the Stationers' Company...
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4 May 1557
The Royal Charter of the Stationers' Company
of London, granted by Mary Tudor
, restricted the privilege of book-production to its limited membership.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
63
The Stationers’ and Newspaper Makers’ Company. http://web.archive.org/web/20080807130318/http://www.stationers.org/companyhall-history.asp.
Smyth, Adam. “23153.8; 19897.7; 15635”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 16, 27 Aug. 2015, pp. 37-9. 37
17 November 1558: Queen Mary I died, and Elizabeth I assumed...
National or international item
17 November 1558
Queen Mary I
died, and Elizabeth I
assumed the throne of England and Wales.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
43
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
264
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
152
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
425
1560: The complete Geneva Bible appeared, translated...
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1560
The complete GenevaBible appeared, translated by English Protestant exiles from the reign of Mary
: the first accessible or mass-circulation edition of the Bible in English, with small format and roman (not gothic) print.
Bible. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “How good is it?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 3, 3 Feb. 2011, pp. 20-2. 20
1631: John Taylor published The Needles Excellency:...
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1631
John Taylor
published The Needles Excellency: A New Booke wherin are divers Admirable Workes wrought with the Needle, which includes (along with hints on embroidery) praise of great ladies.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
29 December 1709: Richard Steele's reference in The Tatler...
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29 December 1709
Richard Steele
's reference in The Tatler to the new fashion of hoop petticoats marked the establishment of the mode in England or at least in London.
Chrisman, Kimberly. “Unhoop the Fair Sex: The Campaign Against the Hoop Petticoat in Eighteenth-Century England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
30
, No. 1, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1996, pp. 5-23. 7-9, 11
December 1965: Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with...
Women writers item
December 1965
Actress Peggy Ashcroft
toured Norway with a show of her own devising, Words on Women and Some Women's Words, originally written for performance at London University
.
Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991.
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