Anne Askew

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Standard Name: Askew, Anne
Birth Name: Anne Askew
Married Name: Anne Kyme
AA 's fame as a Prostestant martyr was in origin dependent on her own testimony. Her accounts of her legal trials in 1545 and 1546, with torture—part debate, part autobiography, part reporting—are unique texts. Her two extant poems also deserve to be better known.
Photograph of a painting probably of Anne Askew, by Hans Eworth, 1560, inscribed "RATHER DEATHE / THEN FALSE OF FAYTHE." She is standing, seen from the waist up, at a three-quarter turn, with her hands clasped in front of her. She is plainly dressed in a heavy black gown with high neck, small ruff, and leg-of-mutton sleeves with white ruffles at the wrists. She has a flat red and gold headpiece, an elaborate pendant, and rings on her fingers. Tatton Hall, National Trust.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Manning
This book makes some pretence of being an early text, though the way that Nicholas Moldwarp is named and introduced suggests the superior eye of posterity. Manning once again imitates not only early spelling, but...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Judith Sargent Murray
She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho , the patriotic heroism...
politics Katherine Parr
The day after Anne Askew was executed, Henry agreed at KP 's persuasion to halt the religious persecutions: two men in the Tower under the same Act were released and no more were burned.
Martienssen, Anthony. Queen Katherine Parr. McGraw-Hill.
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Textual Production Katherine Parr
KP 's Lamentacion of a Sinner, in manuscript, was brought to the attention of Bishop Gardiner (interrogator of Anne Askew ), who thought it abominable.
Martienssen, Anthony. Queen Katherine Parr. McGraw-Hill.
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Friends, Associates Katherine Parr
In Lincolnshire KP was near the home of the child Anne Askew , whom she may well have met during these years and to whom she seems to have passed on the teaching of Vives .
Martienssen, Anthony. Queen Katherine Parr. McGraw-Hill.
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Friends, Associates Katherine Parr
She interested herself in women's bible-studying groups, in which her associates included Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk , Elizabeth, Lady Tyrwhit , and Anne Askew .
politics Katherine Parr
For women to take it upon themselves to make their own study of Holy Scripture was an act of ideological resistance. The arrest and first trial of Anne Askew in March 1545 turned the Queen's...
Textual Production Carol Rumens
Since this year, 2007, CR has been picking a Poem of the Week for the Guardian newspaper, which prints the poem along with her commentary and analysis. Rumens like to pay attention to context and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
Written specifically for use in Sunday Schools, it relates the sufferings of Protestant Martyrs such as Anne Askew , Katherine Hut , and Elizabeth Thackvel . The sufferings of Anne Askew (here seen as martyr...
Textual Features Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
Pre-eminent among the Protestant heroines treated by Foxe is Anne Askew , whose own texts he includes. Anna Eliza Bray had published a novel inspired by Foxe in 1828.

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