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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 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna | The English Martyrology, an abridgement of John Foxe
's Book of Martyrs by Charlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) was published in two volumes. John Foxe
's first complete version was published in 1563 under the... |
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 |
Textual Features | Margery Kempe | Many critics have, justifiably, called MK
's Book the first autobiography in English. Karma Lochrie
, however, argues that it is a fictional narrative of which she is the imaginary heroine, while Stephen R. Reimer |
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 |
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 |
Publishing | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | ENC
published with the Gallery Press
(founded just two years before this in Dublin) her first poetry volume, Acts and Monuments, which daringly borrows the title of John Foxe
's Actes and Monuments... |
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... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Isham | Her needlework included doing Irish stitch, tent stitch, and purse-work, making bone lace and bodices, and knitting stockings, and she often gathered flowers in order to copy them in stitching. Isham, Elizabeth. “Diary”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham. 1636 Isham, Elizabeth. “Booke of Rememberances”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham, edited by Elizabeth Clarke. 26r |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edna Lyall | The Burges children's father, though he is against Pusey
ism, is broad-minded Lyall, Edna. The Burges Letters: A Record of Child Life in the Sixties. Longmans, Green, and Co. 33 |
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 |
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 | Marie Belloc Lowndes | One of the earliest books that Marie could remember was Pierre et Pierrette, a celebrated little text written by her grandmother Belloc
to improve the education of French village children. She grew up conscious... |
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... |