Parsons, Eliza. An Old Friend with a New Face. T. N. Longman, 1797, 3 vols.
3: title-page
Marie de Medici Queen of France
Standard Name: Marie de Medici,, Queen of France
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary Setting | Eliza Parsons | Each of the three volumes has a different quotation on its title-page: the last is Shakespeare
's defiant Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky, maintaining that harsh weather is mild compared with human injustice. |
| Textual Features | Catherine Gore | The plot revolves around the marriage of Henri IV; the Marchioness of Verneuil (played by Ellen Tree
) Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34. 12 |
| Textual Features | Catherine Gore | In this unusual book CG
seems to stand mid-way between Coventry
in Pompey, 1752 (using her canine protagonist for intimate satire on the chiefly female upper classes), and Virginia Woolf
in Flush, 1933... |
| Textual Production | Julia Pardoe | In The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, a biography that reads like a historicalnovel, JP
aimed to counter the current, highly critical, arguably antifeminist opinion of this powerful queen. 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. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1285 (1852): 645-6 |
Timeline
1610: The assassination of Henri IV of France left...
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1610
The assassination of Henri IV
of France left his widow, Marie de Medici
, ruling as Regent for her young son, Louis XIII
.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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