Queen Mary 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...

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...

Its topic was the relationship between Mary Tudor and her sister Elizabeth before either of them came to the throne. Jane Collier 's commonplace-book mentions a scene in Sallys Play, in which a character...

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

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...

She presents her subject as one of the nation's great institutions and as her own spiritual home. She relates its history from the beginnings, in the entwined careers of Thomas Cranmer , Mary Tudor ...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

The preface to Conversations on Language mentions JM 's long experience and her popularity with the public to justify her presentation to children of such a complex and difficult subject. In Conversations on the History...

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...