qtd. in
Harrison, Jane Ellen. Reminiscences of a Student’s Life. Hogarth Press, 1925.
11
Lady Jane Grey
Standard Name: Grey, Lady Jane
Used Form: The Nine Days' Queen
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Jane Ellen Harrison | In her memoir, JEH
writes that although she was English, she hated the idea of the Empire, for it contained the seeds of war. She felt, however, intensely proud of being a Yorkshire woman. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny | Her brother Henry, second Earl of Rutland
, was associated with extreme reformers including John Dudley (father of Lady Jane Grey
) and was imprisoned in July 1553 for supporting Lady Jane's claim to the throne. 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. 6 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Jane Lumley | The equally learned Lady Jane Grey
was a cousin of LJL
on her mother's side. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sir Philip Sidney | His mother, Lady Mary Sidney
, was a duke's daughter and sister of two brothers who became earls (one of them, Robert Dudley
, the Earl of Leicester and the favourite of Queen Elizabeth
)... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria van Schurman | Having laid out her case, AMS
proceeds to summarise and refute that of her Adversaries. These she classifies as the utilitarian (who value learning purely for its cash or career value) and the envious... |
| Literary Setting | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | The Eventful History of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk
, The Flower of English Chivalry, and the Princess Mary of England
: An Original Romance Founded on Historical Facts is a historical novel in miniature... |
| Occupation | Harriett Jay | HJ
made her London debut the next month, on 22 December, in Buchanan's The Nine Days Queen. In this too she took on the lead role (this time as Lady Jane Grey
). Her... |
| politics | Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny | FNBA
's husband not only attended the coronation of the Catholic monarch Mary Tudor
on 1 October 1553 (while her eldest brother had just been imprisoned for supporting the rival Protestant candidate Lady Jane Grey |
| politics | Queen Elizabeth I | Elizabeth's youth was lived in the shadow of national power politics. Her younger brother succeeded her father as king. The year she turned twenty he died, and Lady Jane Grey
, placed on the throne... |
| politics | Lady Jane Lumley | LJL
and her husband attended the coronation of Mary Tudor
. As a Roman Catholic, John, first Baron Lumley
, was a natural Mary supporter, while his wife was cousin to the recently deposed and... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Some of the fictions relate to philosophical and theological debates of the time; Bigold, Melanie. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Trotter, Carter, and Rowe. 26 Feb. 2006. |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | EOB
writes in terms of a women's tradition: for instance, she praises Barbauld
for praising Elizabeth Rowe
. She makes confident judgements and attributions (she is sure that Lady Pakington
is the real author of... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | Other poems in this volume include Lucy's Grave (a tale of a girl who was Three times an orphan Wolferstan, Elizabeth Pipe. The Enchanted Flute. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822. 79 |
| Textual Features | Susanna Watts | The many pictures in the volume include diagrams of the hold of a slave ship, I & Dash my Dog (a sketch), and prints of Hester Mulso Chapone
, Lady Rachel Russell
(with a copy... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's various poems about marriage make all the usual points deployed by those writers who set themselves against the current legal drawbacks of marriage for women. She translated Latin epigrams attributed to two famous... |
Timeline
6 July 1553: The sixteen-year-old Edward VI died, producing...
National or international item
10 July 1553: Lady Jane Grey (who descended through her...
National or international item
10 July 1553
Lady Jane Grey
(who descended through her mother from Henry VIII
's sister Mary
) acceded to the throne of England.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
261
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
19 July 1553: Lady Jane Grey was deposed as queen, and...
National or international item
19 July 1553
Lady Jane Grey
was deposed as queen, and Mary Tudor
assumed the throne of England and Wales.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
43
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
151
12 February 1554: Lady Jane Grey was executed in consequence...
National or international item
12 February 1554
Lady Jane Grey
was executed in consequence of her parents' claim of the throne for her.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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
12 October 1597: Michael Drayton's England's Heroicall Epistles...
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12 October 1597
Michael Drayton
's England's Heroicall Epistles was entered in the Stationers' Register
; it appeared the same year.
Drayton, Michael. Minor Poems of Michael Drayton. Editor Brett, Cyril, Clarendon Press, 1907.
x
Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.
20 April 1715: Nicholas Rowe's she-tragedy Lady Jane Gray...
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20 April 1715
Nicholas Rowe
's she-tragedyLady Jane Gray was first performed.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
By December 1825: The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey were...
Women writers item
By December 1825
The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey were published with a memoir by R. H. Nicholas.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
33 (1825): 277
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