Overview

This book—along with its companion volume Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representations—centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an equally wide chronological and geographical scope, accounting for the years prior to her accession in July 1553 through the centuries that followed her death in November 1558 and for her reach across England, and into Ireland, Spain, Italy, Russia, and Africa. Its intent is to foreground words and language—written, spoken, and acted out—and, by extension, to draw out matters of and conversations about rhetoric, imagery, methodology, source base, genre, narrative, form, and more. Taken together, these volumes find in England’s first crowned queen regnant an incomparable opportunity to ask new questions and seek new answers that deepen our understanding of queenship, the early modern era, and modern popular culture.

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“This volume is highly recommended if one wishes to understand the historiography of England’s first crowned queen regnant, and the ways in which she is remembered in the present.” (Peter Stiffell, British Catholic History, Vol. 36 (3), May, 2023)

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Jessica S. Hower is Associate Professor of History at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, USA.  Valerie Schutte is an independent scholar who specializes in royal Tudor women and book dedications. 

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