Collinson, Patrick. “Little Bastard”. London Review of Books, pp. 17-18.
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Queen Mary I
Standard Name: Mary I, Queen
Used Form: Mary Tudor
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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Monica Furlong | 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
... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Fielding | 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... |
| 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... |
| politics | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | 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... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | 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... |
| Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | Princess Elizabeth (later QEI
) wrote what historian Patrick Collinson regards as the most important letter of her life (for political, not literary reasons): a declaration of innocent loyalty to her sister
. Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press. 43-4 |
| 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... |
| politics | Queen Elizabeth I | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | A biographical lecture on Queen Elizabeth
(originally addressed to Working Women's College
students) is also reprinted. The lecture begins: Queen Elizabeth, when first she saw the light of day, was a great disappointment. She was... |
| Textual Features | Katherine Chidley | The title exhorts him to begin the new yeare, with new fruits of love, first to God, and then to his brethren. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
| 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. http://www.histparl.ac.uk/about/publications/1715-1754. Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741) |
| Textual Production | Anna Eliza Bray | AEB
published her third novel, and her second that year, The Protestant: A Tale of the Reign of Queen Mary, in three volumes. Burstein, Miriam Elizabeth. “Reviving the Reformation: Victorian women writers and the Protestant historical novel”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 12 , No. 1, pp. 73-83. 75n3 Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 51 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. |
| 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. 3:1 Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 52 |
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