Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Anne Askew
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Standard Name: Askew, Anne
Birth Name: Anne Askew
Married Name: Anne Kyme
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'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.
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.
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 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...
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.
KP
's Lamentacion of a Sinner, in manuscript, was brought to the attention of Bishop Gardiner
(interrogator of Anne Askew
), who thought it abominable.
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
.
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...
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...
Textual Production
Anne Manning
The full title of the work is The Lincolnshire Tragedy—Passages in the Life of The Faire Gospeller, Mistress Anne Askew
. Recounted by ye unworthie Pen of Nicholas Moldwarp, B.A. and now first set forth...
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...
Literary responses
Margery Kempe
The year 2018 was a high point in MK
studies, with the first academic conference devoted to her, and the establishment of the Margery Kempe Society
. Diane Watt
summarized the growth of her reputation...
Textual Features
Jean Ingelow
The poems in this collection include Kismet, Lovers at the Lake Side, and Nature, for Nature's Sake. Several of the poems explore more dark and serious matters. The Maid-Martyr, for example...
Family and Intimate relationships
Lucy Hutton
The couple had two sons, one of whom (named William after his father) was still alive in 1811. The elder William Hutton was a remarkable man, who like his wife expressed in writing his original...
Textual Features
Germaine Greer
The selection of poets is highly informed. It reaches back in time before GG
's anthology Kissing the Rod, to Anne Askew
and Isabella Whitney
, and forward to Carol Ann Duffy
and Margaret Atwood
Timeline
1582: Thomas Bentley edited The Monument of Matrones,...
Women writers item
1582
Thomas Bentley
edited The Monument of Matrones, an important anthology containing writings by women, mostly religious.
1732: A printer in Smithfield, London, began issuing...
Building item
1732
A printer in Smithfield, London, began issuing in instalments a new, revised edition of Foxe
's Book of Martyrs.
Texts
Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Askew, Anne. The Examinations of Anne Askew. Editor Beilin, Elaine V., Oxford University Press, 1996.
Askew, Anne. The First Examinacyon of Anne Askewe. Editor Bale, John, D. van der Straten, http://BL copy C.21.a.4 reproduced on University Microfilms Reel 21.
Askew, Anne. The Lattre Examinacyon of Anne Askewe. Editor Bale, John, D. van der Straten, http://BL copy C.21.a.4 reproduced on University Microfilms Reel 21.
