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Violence | Anne Askew | AA
was bound upright to die, because her legs were dislocated. Askew, Anne. The Examinations of Anne Askew. Editor Beilin, Elaine V., Oxford University Press. 191 |
Reception | Anne Askew | Knowledge of AA
's writing spread rapidly. The reactionary Stephen Gardiner
, Bishop of Winchester, complained on 6 June 1547 of the number of copies in circulation. Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press. xxviii-xxix |
Education | Lucy Boston | Lucy spent most of her childhood with her siblings, cared for by a nurse, under-nurse and governess in the third-floor nursery. Boston, Lucy et al. Memories. Colt Books with Diana Boston Hemingford Gray. 22-3, 40 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Eliza Bray | She began writing the book on 18 September 1826 and completed it on 19 November of the following year. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 51 |
Literary responses | Anna Eliza Bray | The novel's treatment of religious tension at a time when the English public was debating Catholic Emancipation proved extremely scandalous. As a result, AEB
became the target of much anger. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 52 Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall. 203 |
Textual Features | Brilliana, Lady Harley | It reflects her theological interests, containing—for instance—paraphrases from Calvin
's Institutes of the Christian Religion, from works by William Perkins
, and the sermons of the local vicar. Eales, Jacqueline. Puritans and Roundheads. Cambridge University Press. 25, 43, 49 |
Education | Pearl S. Buck | Mr Kung despised fiction and the Sydenstricker library contained only the supposedly factual Plutarch
's Lives and Foxe
's Book of Martyrs, but Pearl read fiction avidly in both Chinese and English, devouring Shakespeare |
Education | Catherine Carswell | |
Education | Mary Collier | MC
writes, No Learning ever was bestow'd on me; / My Life was always spent in Drudgery. Collier, Mary et al. “The Woman’s Labour”. The Thresher’s Labour and The Woman’s Labour, edited by Edward Palmer Thompson et al., Merlin. 6 |
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 |
politics | Queen Elizabeth I | Elizabeth's youth was lived in the shadow of national power politics. Her younger brother succeeded her father as king. The year she turned twenty he died, and Lady Jane Grey
, placed on the throne... |
Anthologization | Queen Elizabeth I | She wrote original poetry all her life, though individual pieces are hard to date. Bradner
, editor of her poems, counts them as six certain and ten doubtful, besides six verse translations. Elizabeth I, Queen. The Poems of Queen Elizabeth I. Editor Bradner, Leicester, Brown University Press. ix |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | Although Lady Tyrwhit
was a cousin by marriage of Katherine Parr
, their shared allegiance to the reformed religion was probably the key to their relationship. The Protestant historian John Foxe
wrote that Elizabeth Tyrwhit... |
Education | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | MBF
mentions her early reading (or looking at the pictures in) Foxe
's Book of Martyrs. The strongest influence on her during her teens was Mrs Lefevre
, a Methodist, whose letters were posthumously... |
Education | Grace, Lady Mildmay | Lady Sharington employed a governess named Hamblyn for her daughters, who was a niece of her husband. Mrs Hamblyn took great pains with the character and moral training of her charges, and taught Grace some... |