Bradstreet, Anne. “The Introduction”. The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet, edited by Joseph R. McElrath and Allan P. Robb, Twayne, p. xi - xlii.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Ephelia | Lady Mary's mother, an heiress, was born Lady Katherine (Kate) Manners
. She had literary interests, and transcribed, for instance, passages from Sir Philip Sidney
's Arcadia. After her husband's violent death she married... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Elizabeth I | In the minds of the country's ruling class, a marriage for the queen was also necessary. Some have supposed that at this stage Elizabeth may have hoped to marry one day, although she herself publicly... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | In addition to her experiment in manufacturing development, she also undertook literary patronage while in Ireland. She took an interest in, and accepted the dedication of A Sixth Booke to the Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | The Sidney family was in fact a kind of royalty of literature. Dorothy's Sidney grandfather was a poet, and the fame of her great-uncle and great-aunt Sir Philip
and Mary Sidney, later Countess of Pembroke |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Cooper | Her selection runs from Edward the Confessor
to Samuel Daniel
. (The title-page mentions Gower
, Langland, and Chaucer.) For each poet she provides a short biography and a scholarly and critical preface. Her judgements... |
Occupation | Lady Anne Clifford | |
Textual Production | Anne Bradstreet | AB
dated An Elegy Upon Sir Philip Sidney. Bradstreet, Anne. “The Introduction”. The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet, edited by Joseph R. McElrath and Allan P. Robb, Twayne, p. xi - xlii. xxx |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Bradstreet | AB
was writing poetry while still in her teens. Langland
's Piers Plowman, Sir Philip Sidney
and the Countess of Pembroke
(whose mother, like AB
, was born a Dudley), and Camden
's life... |
Education | Mary Matilda Betham | She had already written in her diary about copying, in oils, a portrait drawing from an edition of Sir Philip Sidney
's Arcadia. Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons. 41 |
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