Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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Standard Name: Purkiss, Diane
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Lady Jane Lumley | The next year, a modern scholarly edition of LJL
's work appeared, as The Tragedie of Iphigeneia, in Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women, edited by Diane Purkiss
together with plays by the Countess of Pembroke |
| Literary responses | Hannah Wolley | Historian Diane Purkiss
observes that this and HW
's later books open up privileged knowledge to unprivileged readers. |
| Literary responses | Lady Jane Lumley | Scholar Marion Wynne-Davies
has pointed out that what have been called errors in translation (omissions, transpositions) are deliberate changes made for literary or intellectual effect. Editor Purkiss
provides a detailed analysis in her introduction. Wynne-Davies, Marion. “Families at War: Womenapos;s Dramatic Writing and Political Conflict”. Disrupting the Discourses: Women Writers 1500-1700 Conference, South Bank University, London. Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “Introduction”. Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women, edited by Diane Purkiss, translated by. Lady Jane Lumley, Penguin, 1998, p. i - xlvi. |
| Literary responses | Mary Renault | The book came out five years after the Sexual Offences Act in Britain decriminalised many homosexual practices there, and three years after the Stonewall Inn Riots in New York marked the start of Gay Liberation... |
| names | Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke | There is no writer whose names are more problematic. For centuries she was traditionally known as the Countess of Pembroke (perhaps because this full form appears in the title of her brother's Arcadia) instead... |
| Occupation | Hannah Wolley | According to her own statement she spent seven years (up to the age of twenty-four) as a servant to an employer in the nobility. Scholar John Considine
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography identifies... |
Timeline
24 January 1642
The earliest dated of the weekly newsbooks listed in the English Short Title Catalogue is the issue for the twentyfourth of January to the last, 1641 [sic], of A Perfect Diurnall of the Passages in...