Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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Occupation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | In 1860 ACS
inaugurated his literary career with two plays published together as The Queen Mother; Rosamond. He also contributed literary criticism and poetry to periodicals such as The Spectator. Two of his... |
Occupation | Jane Porter | JP
discovered in Russia some unpublished letters of Mary Queen of Scots
, which she transcribed, and sent to her friends Agnes
and Elizabeth Strickland
for their edition. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus. 112-13 |
Performance of text | Naomi Jacob | She mentions two historical one-acters which she later wrote, both on Scottish themes. One, about Bonnie Prince Charlie
as a tired, disappointed exile after his attempt on the throne, was staged by the Scottish National Players |
Performance of text | Liz Lochhead | LL
's play Mary Queen of Scots
Got Her Head Chopped Off premiered at Edinburgh's Lyceum Studio
during the Fringe Festival
, to critical acclaim. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 239 |
politics | Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny | FNBA
's husband not only attended the coronation of the Catholic monarch Mary Tudor
on 1 October 1553 (while her eldest brother had just been imprisoned for supporting the rival Protestant candidate Lady Jane Grey |
Publishing | Mary Hays | She was commissioned to produce this work for the occasion of |
Publishing | Jean Plaidy | Seven years later JP
published, under this same name, a children's historical book entitled The Young Mary, Queen of Scots. William Randell
illustrated it. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Publishing | Charlotte Mew | CM
published Mary Stuart
in Fiction in The Englishwoman. Mew, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Collected Poems and Prose, edited by Val Warner, Carcanet and Virago, p. ix - xxii. viii |
Publishing | Ethel Savi | John Lane
asked her to meet his reader, M. P. (Mary Patricia) Willcocks
(herself the author of some very clever novels), who suggested that ES
should rewrite her manuscript. Savi, Ethel. My Own Story. Hutchinson. 164 M. P. Willcocks was... |
Reception | Queen Elizabeth I | The immense and long-lasting interest aroused by Elizabeth is not, of course, primarily due to her writings, any more than were the adulation paid her during her lifetime, the cult of Gloriana, the Virgin Queen... |
Reception | Sophia Lee | The Recess was highly influential: in its basic technique of inserting fictive persons among actual historical ones, in its polarization of Elizabeth
and Mary
, and in its heavily sentimental tone. Writers directly influenced by... |
Textual Features | Sarah Green | The tone of the work is conservative, leavened with an intelligent concern for development of independent thinking. Topics of various letters include Conduct and Conversation, Forbearance, Chastity, Truth, Employment of Time... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | EOB
writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld
for praising Elizabeth Rowe
. She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington
is the real author of... |
Textual Features | Mary Hays | Though occasionally sketchy (it gives Elizabeth Elstob
, for instance, four lines), this is a work of real research, from a consistently feminist point of view. MH
investigates the question of women in power with... |
Textual Features | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | Each title-page proclaims: If the cap fits, wear it—perhaps acknowledging the à clef element of the story. Bradshaw, Mary Ann Cavendish. Memoirs of Maria, Countess d’Alva. William Miller. 1: title-page |
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