- Title
- Gifts that matter: Katherine Parr, Princess Elizabeth, and the Prayers or Meditations (1545)
- Creator
- Pender, Patricia
- Relation
- The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 p. 501-516
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198860631.013.33
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Katherine Parr played a variety of roles in early modern literary culture. Regardless of how far one chooses to expand the category of authorship, it is widely acknowledged that Katherine Parr played a key role in a number of prominent Tudor literary networks, with her husband, her stepchildren, and with powerful (and less powerful) contemporaries. This chapter provides a potted historiography of the way Parr’s literary networks have been represented in literary-historical scholarship, before moving on to look at the network she ostensibly established through the royal schoolroom. Looking at the extant evidence we have of correspondence between the royal children and their stepmother, this chapter proposes that she held distinctive relationships with each child and that her encouragement of their literary efforts consequently employed divergent approaches to decidedly different end. Parr’s royal schoolroom was the site of a literary network requiring much more investigation.
- Subject
- patronage; collaboration; authorship; Katherine Parr; Elizabeth I
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1489364
- Identifier
- uon:52692
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780198860631
- Language
- eng
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