Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Material Conditions of Writing | Carola Oman | She sent her first sonnets to magazines under the name of C. Oman, and the rejection slips came in addressed to her father. There was not much Women's Lib. in my early days. Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton. 89 |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Carola Oman | CO
first relates how Elizabeth's family migrated south from Edinburgh when her father became James I
of England as well as James VI of Scotland. Her story takes in Elizabeth's wedding at Whitehall to... |
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... |
Author summary | Elizabeth Melvill | EM
was a staunch Scottish Presbyterian
whose surviving poems and letters almost all relate to the efforts of James the Sixth and First
to impose episcopacy and other changes on the Kirk. Their religious content... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Melvill | EM
's father was Sir James Melvill or Melville
of Halhill, Collessie, near Auchtermuchty in Fife, Scotland. Halhill was the site of a tower. Sir James's family was famous for loyalty to the... |
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 |
Literary responses | Bathsua Makin | An anecdote relates how King James
, on having the author presented to him as a prodigy with an account of her great learning, responded in the most banal way possible: But can she spin... |
Textual Production | Catharine Macaulay | CM
published, with her name, the first volume of her History of England from the Accession of James I
to that of the Brunswick Line—that is, the Hanoverian monarchs. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 16 (1763): 321 |
Textual Production | Catharine Macaulay | CM
published volume three of her History of England, From the Accession of James I, with a subtitle that reads to the Elevation of the House of Hanover. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 23 (1767): 81 |
Textual Production | Catharine Macaulay | It was printed for the author, by J. Nourse
. CM
's primary publisher for the first four volumes was Thomas Cadell
. When she offered to sell him the entire copyright of the still... |
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 Production | Aemilia Lanyer | 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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lucy Hutchinson | LH
's father, Sir Allen Apsley, was Lieutenant of the Tower of London under James I
. Lucy wrote that he and her mother cared for the prisoners there as if they were their children... |
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