Download or read book Victorian Ambivalence about Queen Elizabeth I written by Clifton W. Potter and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the gender politics of Victorian Britain through an analysis of nineteenth-century representations of Queen Elizabeth I. The book includes a study of how women regarded powerful females.
Download or read book Elizabeth I written by Carole Levin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection by historians, cultural critics and literary scholars examines a variety of the political, social, and cultural forces at work during the English Renaissance and beyond, forces that contributed to creating a wealth of artistic, literary and historical impressions of Elizabeth, her court, and the time period named after her, the Elizabethan age. Articles in the collection discuss Elizabeths' relationships, investigate the advice given her, explore connections between her court and the arts, and consider the role of Elizabeth's court in the political life of the nation. Some of the ways Elizabeth was understood and represented demonstrate society's fears and ambivalence about early modern women in power, while others celebrate her successes as England's first and only unmarried queen regnant. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students in a wide range of disciplines, including literary, cultural, historical and women's studies, as well as those interested in the life and times of Elizabeth I.
Download or read book Elizabeth I and Her Terrible Temper written by Margaret Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody knows that Elizabeth I was called the Virgin Queen, that she had lots of admirers and refused to marry. This book presents such facts as how Liz liked to lock up her ladies for getting married and how her reputation was nearly ruined when her boyfriend's wife was found dead at the bottom of the stairs.
Download or read book The Betrayal of Mary Queen of Scots written by Kate Williams and published by Pegasus Books. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Queen Victoria, a new history of Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I that reveals how the most important relationship of their life—their friendship—changed them forever. Elizabeth and Mary were cousins and queens, but eventually it became impossible for them to live together in the same world. This is the story of two women struggling for supremacy in a man’s world, when no one thought a woman could govern. They both had to negotiate with men—those who wanted their power and those who wanted their bodies—who were determined to best them. In their worlds, female friendship and alliances were unheard of, but for many years theirs was the only friendship that endured. They were as fascinated by each other as lovers; until they became enemies. Enemies so angry and broken that one of them had to die, and so Elizabeth ordered the execution of Mary. But first they were each other’s lone female friends in a violent man’s world. Their relationship was one of love, affection, jealousy, antipathy—and finally death. This book tells the story of Mary and Elizabeth as never before, focusing on their emotions and probing deeply into their intimate lives as women and queens. They loved each other, they hated each other—and in the end they could never escape each other.
Download or read book The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth written by Martin Hume and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A luminous and fascinating narrative. Mr. Hume's masterly and impartial narrative. It is undeniably an important addition to the history of the Elizabethan period, and it will rank as the foremost authority on the most interesting aspect of the character of the Tudor Queen." -Pall Mall Gazette "Among the historians of the later Victorian era Mr. Hume will take high rank. His contributions to our knowledge of Elizabethan times are the result of attainments which no other writer can claim to possess. He is to be congratulated on producing a work with which no student can afford to dispense if desirous of understanding the character of Elizabeth, and which no other living Englishman could have produced." -The Observer "Eminently thorough and lucid, and throws fresh light on what has long been one of the most perplexing as it will ever be the most amusing chapter in the English annals." -The Glasgow Herald "A clear and very interesting account. An excellent book." -The Times of London "We would counsel a perusal of that very remarkable volume, 'The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth,' which, besides being in the highest degree entertaining, furnishes utterly new views of the spacious times of great Elizabeth." -The Daily Telegraph "Without a perusal of Mr. Hume's most researchful and interesting volume, no one, no student even of Froude can claim to have thoroughly grasped the character and aims of our good Queen Bess." --The Daily Chronicle "Mr. Hume...has gone to the fountain-head. A connected and consistent - though assuredly a most extraordinary story. A fascinating picture." -The Daily Standard "Mr. Hume has performed his task admirably. In his hands the story of a unique series of farcical courtships becomes a luminous study in sixteen century international diplomacy." -The Daily News "A careful and learned piece of work. "-The Manchester Guardian "A serious and able work." -The Spectator "The story is altogether a very remarkable one, and is now told for the first time with fulness and accuracy. Students of English and European history during the critical sixteenth century period cannot afford to overlook this strikingly interesting volume." -The Freeman "It has the interest of a novel. This engrossing history of the various negotiations for the Queen's marriage." -The Sketch "It is Mr. Hume's purpose to show that Elizabeth's levity and fickleness were deliberately used to further the interest of England at a time when craft had to make up for weakness; that in the role of Aphrodite she played the part of Minerva. For this, however, he gives her scant credit, professing not to know where sheer vanity and a sort of passion ended and far-sighted policy began. The view he gives is of the woman rather than the queen....Mr. Hume shows her darting from one affair of the heart to another, like a bee from flower to flower, careless of what the world thought, utterly indifferent generally, after the adieux were exchanged, to the feelings of the disappointed swain, but almost savagely jealous of them while the comedy or tragedy, whichever it was, was in progress....Plucked of its feathers the peacock would be but a sorry spectacle; so Queen Elizabeth, divested of every splendid accomplishment that marked her reign, is not an heroic figure....We lay down the volume feeling that the courtships of Queen Elizabeth were very gay, very clever, very important; ready to admit that Mr. Hume has made them appear heartless; but still, it must be confessed, not altogether persuaded that good Queen Bess was absolutely proof against Cupid's darts." -The Bookman
Download or read book Queens of History written by Amelie Mellor and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pick Your Queen written by Rob Alcraft and published by Oxford Reading Tree inFact. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pick Your Queen! compares the lives of Elizabeth the First and Queen Victoria. Which English queen was the best? Would you choose jelly or cake? Is a pet bear better than lots of dogs? It's time to pick your queen! Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction does. The variety of topics means there are books to interest every child in this compelling series. The series is written by top children's authors and subject experts. The books are carefully levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.
Download or read book When Passion Reigned written by Patricia Anderson and published by New York : BasicBooks. This book was released on 1995-07-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this witty and colorful book debunking the myth of Victorian prudery, Anderson argues that far from being the prudes of modern legend, the Victorians were avidly engaged in the erotic side of life. 40 illustrations.
Download or read book British Historians and National Identity written by Anthony Leon Brundage and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two eminent scholars of historiography examine the concept of national identity through the key multi-volume histories of the last two hundred years. Starting with Hume’s History of England (1754–62), they explore the work of British historians whose work had a popular readership and an influence on succeeding generations of British children.
Download or read book Family Ties in Victorian England written by Claudia Nelson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorians were passionate about family. While Queen Victoria's supporters argued that her intense commitment to her private life made her the more fit to mother her people, her critics charged that it distracted her from her public responsibilities. Here, Nelson focuses particularly on the conflicting and powerful images of family life that Victorians produced in their fiction and nonfiction—that is, on how the Victorians themselves conceived of family, which continues both to influence and to help explain visions of family today. Drawing upon a wide variety of 19th-century fiction and nonfiction, Nelson examines the English Victorian family both as it was imagined and as it was experienced. For many Victorians, family was exalted to the status of secular religion, endowed with the power of fighting the contamination of unchecked commercialism or sexuality and holding out the promise of reforming humankind. Although in practice this ideal might have proven unattainable, the many detailed 19th-century descriptions of the outlook and behavior appropriate to fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, and other family members illustrate the extent of the pressure felt by members of this society to try to live up to the expectations of their culture. Defining family to include the extended family, the foster or adoptive family, and the stepfamily, Nelson considers different roles within the Victorian household in order to gauge the ambivalence and the social anxieties surrounding them—many of which continue to influence our notions of family today.
Download or read book Mary Queen of Scots written by Jayne Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an historical figure Mary Queen of Scots has been perpetually represented on canvas, page and stage, and has captured the British imagination since the time of her death in 1587. The 'real' Mary Stuart however has remained an enigma. Mary Queen of Scots: Romance and Nation sheds light on Mary's life by exploring four main themes: * the history of Mary's representation in Britain from the late Tudor period focusing on key periods in the formation of the British identity and closely analysing several texts against a background of the visual, musical and literary works of each period * the reasons why those representing Mary have been so conscious that her image was largely a debatable fiction * the identification of symbolic styles, using Mary to reveal the habits of representation in each historical period * The link between the image of Mary Stuart and Britain's long struggle to define itself as a single nation, focusing on the roles of gender and religion in this development.
Download or read book Problems of the Victorian Age as Reflected in the Poetry of Matthew Arnold Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Alfred Tennyson written by Antje Wulff and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination Thesis from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Trier, language: English, abstract: The Victorian age was a time of change, and of a change as far-reaching and comprehensive as it had hardly ever been encountered before. This change rang in Britain's heyday, it led the country straight into modernity and transformed virtually every area of life. On the Victorians, it had a twofold effect: Regarding themselves as the vanguard of progress, they celebrated their achievements with an almost evangelical optimism, while at the same time, the loss of traditional values and beliefs triggered new fears and insecurities as well. This thesis tries to approach the ambivalent nature of the age by studying the poetry.of Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and the poet laureate Alfred (Lord) Tennyson. Though naturally not intended as a compendium of all the difficulties of Victorian Britain, it traces the predominant predicaments of the age - namely socio-economic and political issues and the effects of "progress" on the inner consciousness of the individual human being - and analyses the way they are presented by the three poets, be it overtly or covertly. An interdisciplinary approach is taken where it seems appropriate, although generally, the poems themselves provide the basis for comment and analysis. They are individual, but also exemplary reactions to the historical environment from which they emerged, and as such, they can contribute to a better understanding of both this environment and the interrelation between man and the forces of history in general.
Download or read book Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question written by Nicola Diane Thompson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was first published in 1999. This collection of essays by leading scholars from Britain, the USA and Canada opens up the limited landscape of Victorian novels by focusing attention on some of the women writers popular in their own time but forgotten or neglected by literary history. Spanning the entire Victorian period, this study investigates particularly the role and treatment of 'the woman question' in the second half of the century. There are discussions of marriage, matriarchy and divorce, satire, suffragette writing, writing for children, and links between literature and art. Moving from Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Mary Yonge to Mary Ward, Marie Corelli, 'Ouida' and E. Nesbit, this book illuminates the complex cultural and literary roles, and the engaging contributions, of Victorian women writers.
Download or read book The Victorian Illustrated Book written by Richard Maxwell and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: US scholars of literature explore how illustrated books became a cultural form of great importance in England and Scotland from the 1830s and 1840s to the end of the century. Some of them consider particular authors or editions, but others look at general themes such as illustrations of time, maps and metaphors, literal illustration, and city scenes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Victoria the Queen written by Julia Woodlands Baird and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The race to the crown -- The birth of "pocket Hercules"--The lonely, naughty princess -- An impossible, strange madness -- "Awful scenes in the house"--Becoming queen: "I shall not fail" -- The coronation: "a dream out of the Arabian nights" -- Learning to rule -- A scandal in the palace -- Virago in love -- The bride: "I never, never spent such an evening" -- Only the husband, not the master -- The palace intruders -- King to all intents: "like a vulture into his prey" -- Perfect, awful, spotless prosperity -- Annus Mirabilis: the revolutionary year -- What Albert did: the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- The Crimea: 'This unsatisfactory war' -- London boils over -- Royal parents: "everything passes so quickly!" -- "Who will call me Victoria now?" -- "The whole house seems like Pompeii." -- Resuscitating the widow at Windsor -- The queen's stallion -- The faery queen awakes -- Enough to kill any man -- Two ironclads colliding: the queen and Mr. Gladstone -- The monarch in a bonnet -- The "poor munshi" -- The diamond empire -- The end of the Victorian Age - "The streets were indeed a strange sight
Download or read book Memoirs of Victorian Working Class Women written by Florence s. Boos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such writings over time, examines the circumstances which enabled working-class women authors to publish their life stories, and places these memoirs within a wider autobiographical tradition. Additionally, Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women enables readers to appreciate the clear-sightedness, directness, and poignancy of these works.
Download or read book Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture written by Antony H. Harrison and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication of his ambitious new work Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture, Antony H. Harrison continues his exploration of poetry as a significant force in the construction of English culture from 1837-1900. In chapters focusing on Victorian medievalist discourse, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, and Christina Rossetti, Harrison examines a range of Victorian poems in order to show the cultural work they accomplish. He illuminates, for example, such culturally prominent Victorian mythologies as the exaltation of motherhood, the Romanic appropriation of transcendent art, and the idealization of the gypsy as a culturally alien, exotic Other. His investigation of the ways in which the authors intervene in the discourses that articulate such mythologies and thereby accrue cultural power--along with his analysis of what constitutes "cultural power"--are original contributions to the field of Victorian studies. "The power of Victorian poetry by midcentury was enhanced by the institutionalization of particular channels through which it circulated," Harrison writes. "poetry was 'consumed' in more varied forms than was other literature." Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture has implications for both cultural studies and the study of literature outside the Victorian period.
