On his first return from his travels SPS
became a courtier to Elizabeth I
, for whom he subsequently conducted diplomatic business with monarchs and others abroad. He also gave the queen gifts, appeared at...
Publishing
Christian Isobel Johnstone
CIJ
wrote a number of non-fiction books for children. She launched her Aunt Jane persona with The Wars of the Jews, 1823 (reprinted 1853), selected from the work of Josephus
. She delineated the...
Timeline
13 December 1577 - 26 September 1580: Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the world,...
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13 December 1577 - 26 September 1580
Sir Francis Drake
circumnavigated the world, travelling from Plymouth in Devon through the Straits of Magellan and round the Cape of Good Hope, and back to Plymouth again.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
A party of soldiers were landed at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, to form the earliest English North American settlement. The demoralised survivors were picked up by Francis Drake
just a year later and...
Earlier 1855: Charles Kingsley published his novel Westward...
Writing climate item
Earlier 1855
Charles Kingsley
published his novel Westward Ho!; Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight . . . in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
355, 667
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
