Katherine Parr

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Standard Name: Parr, Katherine
Birth Name: Katherine Parr
Pseudonym: K. P.
Married Name: Katherine Borough
Married Name: Katherine Neville
Titled: Katherine Neville, Lady Latimer
Royal Name: Queen Katherine
Used Form: Catherine Parr
KP 's interventions in national and ecclesiastical history in the earlier sixteenth century, at the time of the Reformation (which were more far-reaching than has often been recognised), rested on her skill in writing and her faith in the educational power of reading. She produced (besides letters) religious writings: prayers and meditations.
Photograph of half-length portrait of Katherine Parr, painted on wood by an unknown artist. shown from the waist up. She wears a red dress with full sleeves, lavish gold stitching, and white frills at the cuff and standing collar. With this go three gold rings and a heavy gold necklace with pearls and gems. Her brown hair is covered by a white, pearl-edged headpiece and a soft black hat with gold stitching, a tassel, and a white feather. Her name is written in gold next to her face: "Katherine Parre". Natio

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Textual Features Sarah Green
This novel, a third-person narrative, opens arrestingly—It was a cold, and dreary evening, in the month of October 1548
Green, Sarah. The Royal Exile; or, Victims of Human Passions: An Historical Romance of the Sixteenth Century. 2nd ed., J. J. Stockdale, 1811, 4 Vols.
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—on the French Count d'Almaile's discovery of a female skeleton in her coffin...
Textual Production Queen Elizabeth I
The precocious child who would one day be QEI wrote her earliest surviving letter, in Italian, to her stepmother Katherine Parr .
Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press, 2000.
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Textual Production Queen Elizabeth I
Princess Elizabeth (later QEI ) sent Katherine Parr a New Year's gift: a manuscript translation she had done of The Mirrour or Glasse of the Sinful Soul
Neale, J. E. Queen Elizabeth. J. Cape, 1934.
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by Marguerite de Navarre (whom she does...
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
JP followed this Tudor novel with another involving Henry VIII , this time The Sixth Wife, published in 1953, about Katherine Parr , who married Henry in 1543 (ten years after Anne Boleyn had...
Textual Production Queen Elizabeth I
Princess Elizabeth (later QEI ) sent her father a New Year's gift: her translation of Katherine Parr 's Prayers or Meditacions into three languages: Latin, French and Italian.
Collinson, Patrick. “Little Bastard”. London Review of Books, 6 July 2000, pp. 17-18.
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Textual Production Antonia Fraser
Doing research for her study of Catherine Parr she noted that the huge marble Victorian tomb by Sir Gilbert Scott , which later admirers erected for the queen at Sudeley in Gloucestershire, contributed to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Scott
MS expands Duncombe's list of Female Geniuses.
Scott, Mary, and Gae Holladay. The Female Advocate. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1984.
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She looks farther into the past for examples than he does. Whereas Duncombe begins with Orinda (Katherine Philips ), MS turns back to the Renaissance...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Agnes Strickland
Their work (covering the lives both of queens regnant and of queens consort up to Anne ) covered enough new ground to be genuinely innovative. Their general thesis was that queens as rulers had been...

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