Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray, 1902.
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Rosamund Clifford
Standard Name: Clifford, Rosamund
Used Form: Rosamond Clifford
Used Form: Fair Rosamond
Used Form: Fair Rosamund
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Boyle | |
| Literary Setting | Elizabeth Helme | The important nunnery at Godstow near Oxford, standing beside the River Thames, was the supposed place of retirement for the penitent mistress of Henry II
, Rosamund Clifford
or the Fair Rosamond. The... |
| Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | The Cornhill Magazine published MO
's story Queen Eleanor
and Fair Rosamund. Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research, 1996. 159: 258 |
| Textual Features | Sarah Pearson | None of the poems here was included in the volume of 1790; several of them bear the date of 1795, like the closing Rosamond
to Henry the Second
, During her Confinement at Woodstock... |
| Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
saw herself as a professional dramatist, and in the tradition of that metier she was always alert for stories of distant origin, or forgotten or unfinished plays by others, which might be reworked for... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Jenkins | The ten women here share varying degrees and varying combinations of sexual, political, or literary notoriety. Two of them—Elizabeth Inchbald
and Lady Blessington
—hold the status of professional authors. Two more—Becky Wells (whom... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Michael Field | Fair Rosamund chronicles the legend of young Rosamund
's tragic love for Henry II, King of England
. In the end Rosamund, now the king's mistress stabs herself with a knife given to her by... |
Timeline
12 October 1597: Michael Drayton's England's Heroicall Epistles...
Writing climate item
12 October 1597
Michael Drayton
's England's Heroicall Epistles was entered in the Stationers' Register
; it appeared the same year.
Drayton, Michael. Minor Poems of Michael Drayton. Editor Brett, Cyril, Clarendon Press, 1907.
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Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.
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