Comments on Ane Godlie Dreame, though sparse, have been persistent. John Livingstone
recorded that she was famous for her dream anent her spirituall condition.
Baxter, Jamie Reid. “Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: new light from Fife”. The Innes Review, Vol.
68
, No. 1, pp. 38-77.
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John Armstrong
in 1770 thought it almost too terrible...
Literary responses
Isabella Whitney
Her Will may, thinks Betty Travitsky, have influenced George Gascoigne
's Last Will and Testament of Dan Bartholomew of Bath.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Elaine V. Beilin
judges that the last part of this poem is the only...
politics
Anne Dowriche
AD
held strong political views which were inextricably bound up with her religious position. She was a Protestant, therefore a supporter of Elizabeth I, who wanted her own country in turn to support Protestant minorities...
Textual Features
Anne Dowriche
Critic Elaine V. Beilin
discerns the influence on AD
's text of John Foxe
's Actes and Monuments, 1563.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
172
Her comment on the martyrdom of de Bourg
is particularly explicit in its critique...
Textual Production
Anne Bacon
Searches have turned up numbers of AB
's papers, surviving in the British Library
and among her son Anthony's papers at Lambeth Palace
in London.
Martin, Julian. Conversations about Anne Bacon with Isobel Grundy.
AB
's writings are available in facsimile in the...
Scholarly attention paid to the formerly almost invisible AL
dates back forty years, to 1965 and Patrick Collinson
's The Role of Women in the English Reformation Illustrated by the Life and Friendships of Anne...
Timeline
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Texts
Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Beilin, Elaine V. Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance. Princeton University Press, 1987.
Askew, Anne. The Examinations of Anne Askew. Editor Beilin, Elaine V., Oxford University Press, 1996.