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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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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Seymour Montague | The third epistle performs the conventional act of praising historical women: the monarchs Elizabeth I
and Catherine the Great
of Russia for their exercise of power, the French scholar Anne Dacier
, and eleven British... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary More | MM
believes that she is saying something new and not commonly known when she argues that male power over women has grown gradually by unjust laws. She sets out by quoting from and commenting on... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Evelyn Waugh | Waugh emphasized that his book was popular, not scholarly. It opens with an account of Elizabeth
on her deathbed as an old perjured woman, dying without comfort, and reflects throughout the story its author's regret... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Ann Kelty | She covers the Reformation from John Wycliffe
(born in 1324), to the reign of Queen Elizabeth
. |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
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