Epitome or Anomaly?
Saturday, May 14, 2022 - 11:37
OK, this time I'm aiming for the "brief summary" approach. This is hard.
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Gim, Lisa. 1999. “’Faire Eliza’s Chaine’: Two Female Writers’ Literary Links to Queen Elizabeth I” in Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England edited by Susan Frye & Karen Robertson. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-511735-2
Gim, Lisa. “’Faire Eliza’s Chaine’: Two Female Writers’ Literary Links to Queen Elizabeth I”
This article looks at the difficulties of viewing Queen Elizabeth as an example of female lives, and the ways in which she was treated as both an anomaly and as the epitome of female accomplishment by her contemporaries and near contemporaries. The article looks at two 17th century texts written by women that used Elizabeth as the focus of arguments in favor of women’s education. The author points out that women, more often than men, held up Elizabeth as a model for other women, as opposed to viewing her as an isolated exception, or as being essentially masculine in her accomplishments.
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