Diana Primrose
{{Short description|Author of a eulogy to the deceased Queen Elizabeth (fl. 1630)}}
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Diana Primrose (active c. 1630){{Cite web|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100345815|title=Diana Primrose – Oxford Reference|website=oxfordreference.com|language=en|access-date=2019-08-06}} was the author of a eulogy to the deceased Queen Elizabeth published as A Chaine of Pearle, Or a Memoriall of the peerless Graces, and Heroick Vertues of Queene Elizabeth of Glorious Memory. Composed by the Noble Lady, Diana Primrose (London, 1630).{{Citation |last=Pentland |first=Elizabeth |title=P rimrose, D iana |date=2017 |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature |chapter=Primrose, Diana |publisher=American Cancer Society |language=en |doi=10.1002/9781118297353.wbeerlp021 |isbn=978-1-118-29735-3}} The work is made up of ten "Pearles" or short poems. As some of the poems describe virtues found in Elizabeth but some do not it is considered that they may represent social criticism, as well as a criticism of the then current ruler King James.
It is likely the poet used an allegorical pseudonym.{{Cite web |title=The Poets, Isabella Whitney, Anne Dowriche, Elizabeth Melville [Colville], Aemilia Lanyer, Rach w KrainaKsiazek.pl |url=https://krainaksiazek.pl/The-Poets-Isabella-Whitney-Anne-Dowriche-Elizabeth-Melville-Colville-Aemilia-Lanyer-Rachel-Speght-Diane-Primrose-and-Anne-Mary-and-Penelope-Grey--Printed-Writings-1500-1640-Series-I-Part-T,9781840142235.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240116074606/https://krainaksiazek.pl/The-Poets-Isabella-Whitney-Anne-Dowriche-Elizabeth-Melville-Colville-Aemilia-Lanyer-Rachel-Speght-Diane-Primrose-and-Anne-Mary-and-Penelope-Grey--Printed-Writings-1500-1640-Series-I-Part-T,9781840142235.html |archive-date=16 January 2024 |access-date=2024-01-16 |website=krainaksiazek.pl}} The Primrose family was well established in Scotland at this time, though there is no record of a "Diana."{{Cite web |title=The Rosebery Family History |url=https://roseberyestates.co.uk/dalmeny-house/rosebery-family-history |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240116071719/https://roseberyestates.co.uk/dalmeny-house/rosebery-family-history |archive-date=16 January 2024 |access-date=2024-01-16 |website=roseberyestates.co.uk}} Since no written documentation of the author's true identity exists, there is no consensus that this person was even female.{{Cite journal |last=Clarke |first=Danielle |date=2003 |title=Nostalgia, Anachronism, and the Editing of Early Modern Women's Texts |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/30227791 |journal=Text |volume=15 |pages=187–209 |access-date=15 January 2024 |jstor=30227791}}
References
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Resources
- Greer, Germaine, et al., eds. "Diana Primrose." Kissing the Rod: an anthology of seventeenth-century women's verse. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. 83–89.
- anonymous. "Diana Primrose." Dictionary of Literary Biography 2008: 1–9.
- anonymous. [http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~oel/givennames.html "Given Names c. 1450–1650."] 2010. Ancestry.com. April 2010
- Anonymous. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100411085107/http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/pearls/history/index.html "Pearls in Human History"] 2010. American Museum of Natural History. April 2010
- —. [http://www.pearloasis.com/pearlhistory.html "The Rich History of Pearls"] 2006. Pearl Oasis. April 2010
- —. [http://www.unrv.com/culture/major-roman-god-list.php UNRV History]. 2003–2010. April 2010 <>.
- {{cite web |last=Castelli |first=Jorge |url=http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/aboutElizabeth.htm |title=Elizabeth 1 Queen of England. |year=2008 |publisher=Tudor Place |access-date=7 April 2010}}{{Unreliable source?|certain=y|self published website; and Jorge H. Castelli is not an expert|date=January 2015}}
- Hopkins, Lisa. Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England. Shakespeare Studies (2001).
- Nichols, John. The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth. London: John Nichols and son, 1823.
- Primrose, Diana. "A Chaine of Pearle". Wynne-Davies, Marion. Women Poets of the Renaissance. London: J.M. Dent, 1998. 229–238, 328–337.
- Primrose, Diana. "A Chaine of Pearle". Helen Ostovich, Elizabeth Sauer. Reading Early Modern Women. London: Routledge, 2004. 380–381.
- Spenser, Edmund. [http://0-eebo.chadwyck.com.library.albion.edu/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=99857077&FILE=../session/1270615161_8211&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&SEARCHCONFIG=var_spell.cfg&ECCO=N&DISPLAY=AUTHOR The Faerie Queen]. 1590. Early English Books Online. 7 April 2010
External links
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Category:17th-century English women writers
Category:17th-century English writers
Category:Cultural depictions of Elizabeth I