Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940.
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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discovered in Russia some unpublished letters of Mary Queen of Scots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, 1940. 112-13 |
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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Violet Trefusis | Around 1924, when VT
was attending classes at the Sorbonne
, she wrote a play (unpublished and probably unperformed) about Mary, Queen of Scots
and Elizabeth I
titled Les soeurs ennemies. Sharpe, Henrietta. A Solitary Woman: A Life of Violet Trefusis. Constable, 1981. 79 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Strickland | Elizabeth
collaborated with her sister again in an edition of the Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1842, a project which she began and which Agnes later joined. Many of these letters were appearing... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Agnes Strickland | Elizabeth
and AS
's historical studies in the British Museum
produced an edition of the Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, to which they were able to bring much unpublished material. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. 785 (12 November 1842): 966-9 |
Literary Setting | Sarah Pearson | The poem picked out by the Critical Review as the principal one, occupying fourteen pages, is entitled Lines found on the Stairs of the Tour de la Chapelle of the Bastile. These lines, powerful... |
Literary Setting | Sophia Lee | An Advertisement claims that The Recess is a version, in modernised English, of a manuscript memoir from the reign of Elizabeth I
. It breaks new ground for the English novel in various ways: it... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Jenkins | The TLS review pointed out two small errors and suggested that both Elizabeth's relationship with Mary Queen of Scots
and the nature of England's rivalry with Spain were somewhat oversimplified here, but it praised the... |
Leisure and Society | Jane Austen | In 2009 another scholarly furore greeted the Juvenilia Press
edition of Austen's History of England by Annette Upfal
and Christine Alexander
. The editors argued (here and in an article) that Cassandra Austen's tiny sketches... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sophia Lee | |
Friends, Associates | Queen Elizabeth I | The flight of Mary, Queen of Scots
from her own country in May 1568 into Elizabeth's domain caused the English queen much heart-burning. Mary (Elizabeth's cousin) was an obvious pretender to the throne, representing the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Arbella Stuart | LAS
's father, Charles Stuart, Earl of Lennox
, was the only surviving child of his mother, Lady Margaret Douglas
; he was a grandson of Margaret Tudor
, Queen of Scots, and a great-grandson... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Melvill | EM
's father was Sir James Melvill or Melville
of Halhill, Collessie, near Auchtermuchty in Fife, Scotland. Halhill was the site of a tower. Sir James's family was famous for loyalty to the... |
Education | Winifred Peck | It was probably Mary A. Marzials
' anthology Gems of English Poetry which made poetry the only lesson the Knoxes disliked. Winifred felt that Hemans
's boy on the burning deck cut a poor figure... |
Cultural formation | Lady Arbella Stuart |
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