Queen Elizabeth I

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Standard Name: Elizabeth I, Queen
Birth Name: Elizabeth Tudor
Royal Name: Elizabeth I
QEI was a scholar by training and inclination (who wrote translations both as learning exercises and for recreation), as well as a writer in many genres and several languages. As monarch she wrote speeches, and all her life she wrote letters, poems, and prayers. (Some of these categories occasionally overlap.) Once her writing moved beyond the dutifulness of her youth, she had a pungent and forceful style both in prose and poetry.

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Violet Fane
The play details the treasonous plot Babington spun to murder Queen Elizabeth and have Catholic Mary Queen of Scots assume the throne.
Fredeman, William E., and Ira Bruce Nadel, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 35. Gale Research, 1985.
35: 77
Babington and his associates were executed with great cruelty on 18-19...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Lucy Aikin
LA 's preface denies the absurd notion that absolute gender equality might be feasible and advises women not to attempt to become inferior men. But she asserts, there is not an endowment, or propensity, or...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eglinton Wallace
She recommends the study of history, and her moral exhortation leans heavily on anecdotal, historical examples. (She also uses quotations from her own unpublished tragedy.)
Wallace, Eglinton. Letter from Lady Wallace to Capt. William Wallace. J. Debrett, 1792.
62
She cites Queen Elizabeth (among many others) as a...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Locke
AL 's title-page quotes from Saint Paul 's Epistle to the Romans: The spirit beareth witnesse to our spirit that wee are the sons of God . . . . The sentence goes on...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Fielding
Its topic was the relationship between Mary Tudor and her sister Elizabeth before either of them came to the throne. Jane Collier 's commonplace-book mentions a scene in Sallys Play, in which a character...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Lady Anne Clifford
LAC demonstrates here an acute sense of history which is not a modern sense. Her account of Queen Elizabeth 's funeral leads her to expatiate on the implications of Elizabeth 's reign, as much for...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sally Purcell
These poems dwell in SP 's familiar territory of icy waters, towers and forests, dreaming stones, desert saints, and mythological fauns and mermaids. March 1603 presents Queen Elizabeth on her deathbed, with a sword by...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eva Figes
She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Emily Lawless
The subtitle gives the text the air of a historical account, dissimulating EL 's authorship: Being extracts from a diary kept in Ireland during the year 1599 by Mr. Henry Harvey, sometime secretary to Robert...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
A biographical lecture on Queen Elizabeth (originally addressed to Working Women's College students) is also reprinted. The lecture begins: Queen Elizabeth, when first she saw the light of day, was a great disappointment. She was...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Norah Lofts
The house, Merravay, is seen playing a crucial role in the lives of a series of protagonists named in the chapter titles. They include the apprentice, the witch, the matriarch, the governess, ending after the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ruth Padel
The style of these poems, said one reviewer, is vintage RP : dynamic, baroque and jam-packed full of neocultural reference. Padel often writes about animals (sometimes in exotic wild places, often wild animals in captivity)...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Melesina Trench
The title poem of Ellen comes from a story lately reported by newspapers. Other pieces (several of them ballads) deal with historical figures like Queen Elizabeth , Cardinal Wolsey , an anonymous monk, and the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Brownell Jameson
Her subjects reach back to the semi-legendary such as Semiramis and Cleopatra . ABJ includes from England Queen Elizabeth and Queen Anne and from Europe Maria Theresa and Catherine the Great .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

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