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
John Foxe
gave it a still wider...
Textual Features
Anne Dowriche
Critic Elaine V. Beilin
discerns the influence on AD
's text of John Foxe
's Actes and Monuments, 1563.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
172
Her comment on the martyrdom of de Bourg
is particularly explicit in its critique...
Textual Features
Brilliana Lady Harley
It reflects her theological interests, containing—for instance—paraphrases from Calvin
's Institutes of the Christian Religion, from works by William Perkins
, and the sermons of the local vicar.
Eales, Jacqueline. Puritans and Roundheads. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
25, 43, 49
She translated part...
Textual Features
Margery Kempe
Many critics have, justifiably, called MK
's Book the first autobiography in English. Karma Lochrie
, however, argues that it is a fictional narrative of which she is the imaginary heroine, while Stephen R. Reimer
Textual Production
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
The English Martyrology, an abridgement of John Foxe
's Book of Martyrs by Charlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) was published in two volumes.
John Foxe
's first complete version was published in 1563 under the...
Violence
Anne Askew
AA
was bound upright to die, because her legs were dislocated.
Askew, Anne. The Examinations of Anne Askew. Editor Beilin, Elaine V., Oxford University Press, 1996.
191
John Foxe
later wrote about the three men burned with her: It happened well for them, that they died together with Anne Askewe...