Queen Mary I

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

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...

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...

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...

Mary Tudor , dedicatee of MB 's translation from Eusebius, made Basset one of her chamber gentlewomen at Court.

Before her second husband died, KP had taken up, like her mother before her, a Court post as lady-in-waiting to Princess Mary .

This year she wrote to Mary in Latin enlisting her support.

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. The patriarch, Owen Witford, is...

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...

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...

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...