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Sir Thomas Overbury
Standard Name: Overbury, Sir Thomas
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Anne Lady Southwell | A miscellany titled from the longest poem in it, The Wife, and ascribed overall to Sir Thomas Overbury
, reached print after being entered in the Stationers' Register in late 1613. It included two... |
| Friends, Associates | Anne Lady Southwell | The Southwell family had connections with the court and with London literary society. Anne Southwell's mother-in-law, Alice
(née Cornwallis), who was a cousin of the essayist William Cornwallis
, may have enabled Anne to meet... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | This poem suggests that women are culpably hungry for flattery (as the poet's husband felt she often was); she declares herself willing to bear sole responsibility for her sexual reputation: it will be her own... |
| Textual Features | Jean Plaidy | The Murder in the Tower takes up the interpretation of a major scandal of its day (still under debate by historians) in which Frances, Countess of Somerset
, was represented as the quintessentially wicked woman... |
| Textual Production | Cicely Bulstrode | A poem, The Wife, posthumously attributed to Sir Thomas Overbury
, was entered in the Stationers' Register. It appeared next year with extraneous material, some of it written by several women, who included... |
| Textual Production | Anne Lady Southwell | Both are replies to writing by men: the certain Southwell ascription answers Donne
's Newes from the very Country, and the almost-certain one to Overbury
's own Newes from Court. Details in the... |
Timeline
July 1616: Frances Howard, Countess of Essex (and by...
National or international item
July 1616
Frances Howard, Countess of Essex
(and by her latest marriage Countess of Somerset), pleaded guilty to accusations of having Sir Thomas Overbury
poisoned to end his publicizing her sexual misconduct.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Texts
Bulstrode, Cicely, and Sir Thomas Overbury. “Newes of my Morning Worke”. A Wife Now The Widdow of Sir Thomas Overburye, Lawrence Lisle, 1614, p. H2v - H3.