Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
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Textual Production | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | The full title was The Reply of the Most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the Most Excellent King of Great Britaine: Perron had published in 1620 his riposte to a letter... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Melvill | EM
is now identified as the M. M. (for Mistress Melville) listed on the title-page as author of Ane Godlie Dreame, Compylit in Scottish Meter, a 60-stanza dream-vision poem printed at Edinburgh this... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Melvill | John Welsh
was imprisoned in Blackness Castle (across the River Forth from Rosyth) in connection with the abortive Church of Scotland
General Assembly at Aberdeen. EM
wrote for him in prison A Sonnet Sent... |
Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | AF
's third historical biography, King James
VI of Scotland, I of England, followed much more closely on the heels of its predecessor than had been the case before. Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. (1988) Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Lucy Aikin | LA
published another 2-volume work of cultural history: Memoirs of the Court of King James the First. Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 26: 542 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | EOB
pursued the topic of lives of female monarchs in Memoirs of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia
, Daughter of King James the First. This book was listed as preparing for publication in the... |
Textual Production | Selina Bunbury | Coombe Abbey: An Historical Tale of the Reign of James the First, a story about the kidnapping of the young Elizabeth of Bohemia
that was planned to accompany the gunpowder plot of 1605, became... |
Textual Features | Norah Lofts | The house, Merravay, is seen playing a crucial role in the lives of a series of protagonists named in the chapter titles. They include the apprentice, the witch, the matriarch, the governess, ending after the... |
Textual Features | Lady Arbella Stuart | This first letter by AS provides family news, thanks her grandmother for a token and sends in exchange some of her hair and a pot of jelly made by her servant. Stuart, Lady Arbella. The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart. Editor Steen, Sara Jayne, Oxford University Press. 119 |
Textual Features | Jeanette Winterson | Winterson conjures up an England ruled by a king, James I
, obsessed with stamping out the twin evils of witchcraft and Catholicism
. She identifies the original group on the hill with poor women... |
Residence | Lady Eleanor Douglas | Lady Eleanor Davies (later LED
) and her husband Sir John Davies
returned to England from Ireland; he had fallen out with James I
and lost his job. Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press. 23 |
Residence | Grace, Lady Mildmay | GLM
spent her mature married life at the splendid Apethorpe Hall near Peterborough in Northamptonshire, which her father had acquired from King Edward IV
in exchange for other property. The royal connection was continued... |
Reception | Lady Mary Wroth | LMW
wrote to assure Buckingham
, the king
's favourite, that she meant no offence to the court by her book, yet offering to withdraw it. Wroth, Lady Mary. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth. Editor Roberts, Josephine A., Louisiana State University Press, http://BLC. 236 |
Reception | Carola Oman | After the performance of CO
's The Tragedy of King James I (apparently a different juvenile play), senior members of the cast gave her a beautifully-set typescript of the text as a souvenir. Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton. 145-9 |
Publishing | Elizabeth Melvill | The title-page this time shows the royal arms. This undated edition is associated by Rebecca Laroche
with the Hampton Court Conference of Anglican
bishops at which James I
pronounced No Bishop, no King Laroche, Rebecca. “Elizabeth Melville and Her Friends: Seeing ‘Ane Godlie Dreame’ through Political Lenses”. CLIO, Vol. 34 , No. 3, pp. 277-95. 287 |
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