Queen Mary I

RH had been nearly ten years married when the Protestant Edward VI died on 6 July 1553, and the Catholic Mary Tudor succeeded him. This was bad news for those of her religious opinions: in...

Lady Tyrwhit and her husband continued to prosper through the reign of Queen Mary . Susan M. Felch points out that long before she was a persecutor of Protestants, Mary had participated in the humanist...

Entertaining Knox was a politically dangerous thing for Locke and her husband to do under Queen Mary . A few years later, when Anne Locke left England, her motives no doubt included a religio-political element—she...

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...

KP supervised the education, encouraged the writing, and tried to form the minds of her new batch of step-children: Mary , Elizabeth , and Edward . (Susan E. James in the Oxford Dictionary of...

Elizabeth's youth was lived in the shadow of national power politics. Her younger brother succeeded her father as king. The year she turned twenty he died, and Lady Jane Grey , placed on the throne...

Rastell, a nephew of More, was Basset's cousin. The titles are confusing here. Rastell's edition is sometimes called The English Works of Sir Thomas More, which is the title of a facsimile published in...

AL , having left her home in London at the urging of John Knox , arrived (with her two small children) in Geneva to seek refuge from the religious persecution of Queen Mary 's reign.

Their work (covering the lives both of queens regnant and of queens consort up to Anne ) covered enough new ground to be genuinely innovative. Their general thesis was that queens as rulers had been...

The title exhorts him to begin the new yeare, with new fruits of love, first to God, and then to his brethren. The Introduction or Epistle, To the Godly Reader explains why she has taken...

Through light-hearted irony, the poem eulogises human progress. Edmund Bonner , Bishop of London under Queen Mary , had been an ardent burner of Protestant heretics. In the poem his ghost laments the Reformation of...

It was probably published soon afterwards, though the title-page says 1611. Handsome copies of the title-poem without all of its accompanying or supporting poems were given as gifts to Prince Henry (eldest son of James I

Tyrwhit's collection of prayers is thought to date from the mid 1550s, and tradition suggests that it was written for the future Queen Elizabeth I during her imprisonment by her sister Queen Mary , but...

AEB published her third novel, and her second that year, The Protestant: A Tale of the Reign of Queen Mary, in three volumes.

While in exile in Geneva, AL had worked on this rendering of modern and revolutionary material. She had only recently returned to London when her work was recorded in the Stationers' Register . Chapter...