Elizabeth I, Queen. The Poems of Queen Elizabeth I. Editor Bradner, Leicester, Brown University Press, 1964.
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Thomas Bentley
Standard Name: Bentley, Thomas
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Queen Elizabeth I | She wrote original poetry all her life, though individual pieces are hard to date. Bradner
, editor of her poems, counts them as six certain and ten doubtful, besides six verse translations. |
| Anthologization | Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit | Tyrwhit's prayers were reprinted, much revised, re-ordered, and expanded, by Thomas Bentley
in the second lampe of his anthology The Monument of Matrones, 1582, with such radical revision and expansion that Felch (who reprints... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Radcliffe | AR
's uncle by marriage Thomas Bentley
was a merchant and a leading dissenter, who had friends among influential Dissenting circles, and in 1768 became a partner of Josiah Wedgwood. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999. 26-7 |
| Author summary | Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny | FNBA
both collected and composed devotional writings during the sixteenth century, which reached print after her death. Thomas Bentley
, including a generous selection in his Monument of Matrones, 1582, presents them as concerned... |
| Publishing | Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny | FNBA
highly valued her collection of prayers. According to the title given them by Thomas Bentley
in 1582, they were committed at the houre of hir death, to the right Worshipfull Ladie MARIE Fane
(hir... |
| Reception | Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny | Her prayers became publicly well-known through Thomas Bentley
's printing of fifty of them, some long, in his Monument of Matrones in 1582 under the title The Praiers made by the right Honourable Ladie Frances... |
| 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, 1996. xxviii-xxix |
| Textual Production | Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny | Phillips may have been commissioned to finish the collection after the death of FNBA
: he worked for London publishers, and wrote several commemorative poems for the recently dead, including Sir Philip Sidney
. Scholars... |
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.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Horton, Louise. “’Restore Me That Am Lost’: Recovering the Forgotten History of Lady Abergavenny’s Prayers”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
26
, No. 1, Feb. 2019, pp. 3-14. 5
Texts
Various Authors,. “The Monument of Matrons (excerpts), 1582”. Women Writers Online, edited by Thomas Bentley.
Abergavenny, Frances Neville, Baroness. “The Praiers made by the right Honourable Ladie Frances Aburgavennie”. The Monument of Matrones, edited by Thomas Bentley, Printed by H. Denham, 1582, pp. 139-13.