Warrior Queens: Boadicea's Chariot (62 page)

37
Dunlop (XIII–35), p. 32; cit. Erickson (XIII–11), p. 276.

38
Henry VI Part III
, Act I, scene iv.

39
Savile, Henry,
The Ende of Nero and the beginning of Galba. Fower bookes of the histories of Cornelius Tacitus. The life of Agricola
(1591), Preface.

40
Dudley and Webster (I–3), p. 115;
Polydore Vergil’s English History
, Vol. I, edited by Sir Henry Ellis (1846), pp. 17, 70–2.

41
The Chronicles of Scotland
, compiled by Hector Boëce, translated into Scots by John Bellenden 1531, edited by R. W. Chambers and Edith Batho, Vol. I (Edinburgh 1938), pp. 141–5.

42
Holinshed (v–27), I, pp. 43–8.

43
Ubaldini,
Donne
(I–5).

44
Ubaldini, ‘Fatti’ (I–5).

45
Camden’s Britannia
, Introduction by Stuart Piggott (1971 facsimile), pp. 311, 347, 366; Dudley and Webster (I–3), pp. 117, 156 note 10.

46
Spenser (II–5), Vol. I, p. 297.

47
Spenser (II–5), Vol. II, p. 199.

48
Williams (XIII–14), pp. 307, 311; Camden (XIII–45), p. 10.

49
‘Elizabetha Triumphans’ in Nichols, John,
The Progresses, and Public Processions, of Queen Elizabeth
…, Vol. II (1788), p. 22.

50
This account is based on Christy, Miller, ‘Queen Elizabeth’s Visit to
Tilbury in 1588’,
English Historical Review
(1919), pp. 43–61; Mattingly, Garrett,
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
(1959), pp. 290–7; also
The Queenes visiting of the Campe at Tilburie with her entertainement there
, BL c. 18 l. 2 (64) (1588); ‘Elizabetha Triumphans’ (XIII–49); Ridley (XIII–9), p. 285 and note.

51
Calendar of State Papers Domestic 1581–90, p. 516; Neale (XIII–13), p. 301.

52
See Barker, Felix, ‘If Parma had Landed’,
History Today
(May 1988), p. 40. Recent research dismisses Arden Hall as the Queen’s residence.

53
Barker (XIII–52), p. 38 questions the text because Aske reports the speech differently; but Sharp would have been closer to the Queen than Aske and, as Leicester’s chaplain, closer to court circles. Letter to
The Times
, 12 May 1988.

54
CSP Domestic (XIII–51), p. 514.

55
Hacker (I–10), p. 653.

Chapter 14: Jinga at the Gates

1
Oakley, Stewart,
The Story of Sweden
(1966), p. 82.

2
Kelly (I–7), p. 86.

3
Cit. Green (II–17), p. 187.

4
Swift,
Jack Frenchman’s Lamentation
, cit. Green (II–17), pp. 191, 360 note 28.

5
Blake, Robert,
Disraeli
(1966), p. 637.

6
Bonduca
(VII–11), Act III, scene i; Fletcher, John,
Bonduca
(Malone Society reprint Oxford 1951) suggests it is ‘hardly open to doubt’ that the play is ‘substantially Fletcher’s’.

7
Bonduca or, The British Heroine
, A Tragedy Acted at the Theatre Royal by his Majesty’s Servants (1696); Price, C. A.,
Henry Purcell and the London Stage
(Cambridge 1984), pp. 97, 117–25.

8
Price (xiv–7), p. 117.

9
Piggott (IV–9), p. 81; Mossiker, Frances,
Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend
(1977), pp. 43, 157, 166.

10
Piggott (IV–9), p. 136; Heywood (II–12), p. 72.

11
Petition of Women, BL
E551
(14) (1649); Shepherd, Simon,
Amazons and Warrior Women: Varities of Feminism in Seventeenth-Century Drama
(Brighton 1981), pp. 87f.

12
Sammes, Aylett,
Britannia Antiqua Illustrata, or, The Antiquities of Ancient Britain
, Vol. I (1676), pp. 223–9.

13
The British Princes
, An Heroick Poem Written by the Honourable Edward Howard Esq. (1669).

14
Dudley and Webster (I–3), p. 125.

15
See Piggott, Stuart,
William Stukeley: An Eighteenth-Century Antiquary
(Oxford 1950),
passim
, especially pp. 54–5 and note 1:
Lincolnshire Notes – Queries
,
MS
in the possession of W. A. Cragg of Threckingham, Vol. 10 (1909), pp. 177–80.

16
Piggott,
Stukeley
(XIV–15), p. 56.

17
G. E. C. (Cokayne),
The Complete Peerage
(reprint 1981), XII/I, p. 81;
The Complete Poetical Works of James Thomson
, edited by J. Logie Robertson (1908), p. 413.

18
The Works of William Cowper
, 8 vols (1853–5), Vol. v, pp. 265–6.

19
Information supplied to the author from resident in Angola in 1987.

20
Buttinger, Joseph,
Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled, Vol
. II:
Vietname at War
(New York 1970), pp. 54–6. Karnow, Stanley,
Vietnam: A History
(New York 1983), p. 100.

21
Ladner, Joyce A., ‘Racism and Tradition: Black Womanhood in Perspective’ in Carroll (II–7), pp. 179–93; Diner (II–6), pp. 221–7; Laffin (XII–20), pp. 47–51.

22
Diner (II–6), pp. 223;
Spectator
(London), 29 October 1987.

23
The main sources for the life of Queen Jinga are: Birmingham, David,
Trade and Conflict in Angola: The Mbundu and their Neighbours under the Influence of the Portuguese 1483–1790
(Oxford 1966); Boxer, C. R.,
Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire 1415–1825
(Oxford 1963) and
Salvador de Sá and the Struggle for Brazil and Angola 1602–1686
(1952); Chilcote, B.,
Portuguese Africa
(1967); Duffy, James,
Portuguese Africa
(1959).

24
Birmingham (XIV–23), pp. 92–5.

25
Boxer,
Salvador
(XIV–23), p. 243.

26
Boxer,
Race
(XIV–23), p. 25.

27
Ogilby (I–6), II, pp. 563–5.

28
Cit. Boxer,
Race
(XIV–23), p. 29.

29
Cit. Boxer,
Race
(XIV–23), p. 30.

30
Ogilby (I–6), II, p. 563.

31
Child, Mrs,
An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans called Africans
(Boston 1833), p. 161.

32
Birmingham (XIV–23), p. 125.

33
Child (XIV–31), p. 161.

Chapter 15: Queen versus Monster

1
Napoleon (II–14), p. 488.

2
Napoleon (II–14), p. 326; Gluck’s
Armide
: libretto by Philippe Quenault, Act v, scene v.

3
Voss, Sophie Marie Countess von,
Sixty-Nine Years at the Court of Prussia: From the recollections of the Mistress of the Household
, 2 vols (1876), Vol. II, p. 42.

4
Burke, Edmund,
Reflections on the Revolution in France
…, edited and with an Introduction by Conor Cruise O‘Brien (1969 pbk), p. 170;
Life of General Sir Robert Wilson
, edited by Rev. Herbert Randolph, Vol. II (1862), p. 53.

5
Wilson (xv–4), p. 53; Gibbon (I–9), I, p. 302.

6
Biographies consulted for Maria Theresa and Catherine respectively are: Crankshaw, Edward,
Maria Theresa
(1971 pbk); Cronin, Vincent,
Catherine Empress of all the Russias
(1978); Gooch, G. P.,
Catherine the Great and Other Studies
(1954); Troyat, Henri,
Catherine the Great
(I–16).

7
Saint Simon at Versailles
, selected and translated by Lucy Norton. With a preface by Nancy Mitford (1985 pbk edn), p. 241.

8
Cit. Crankshaw (xv–6), p. 59, 61;
The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh
, edited by Alexander Carlyle, 2 vols (1909), Vol. I, p. 41.

9
Crankshaw (xv–6), p. 78.

10
Crankshaw (xv–6), pp. 308f.;
c
1749 cit.
Maria Theresia’s Politisches Testament
, edited by J. Kalbrunner and C. Biener (Vienna 1959).

11
Voltaire (III–4), IX, p. 32.

12
Memoirs of Catherine the Great
, translated by Katharine Anthony (New York 1927), p. 15.

13
Memoirs of the Princess Daschkaw [Dashkova], Lady of Honour to Catherine 11, Empress of all the Russias, Written by Herself
, edited by Mrs W. Bradford, 2 vols (1840), Vol. I, pp. 78f.

14
Catherine’s
Memoirs
(xv–12), p. 266.

15
Troyat (I–16), p. 187; Gooch (xv–6), p. 95.

16
Troyat (I–16), p. 270.

17
Gooch (xv–6), p. 18; Troyat (I–16), p. 166.

18
Voltaire (III–4), IX, p. 84.

19
Voltaire (III–4), IX,
passim
, esp. pp. 51, 68.

20
Voltaire (III–4), IX, p. 84.

21
Cronin (xv–6), p. 183.

22
Wright, Constance,
Louise, Queen of Prussia
(1970), p. 47.

23
Wright (xv–22), p. 18;
Memoirs of Madame Vigée Le Brun
, translated by Lionel Strachey, 2 vols (1904), Vol. II, p. 167.

24
The Diaries and Letters of Sir George Jackson,
KCH
, from the Peace of Amiens to the Battle of Talavera
, edited by Lady Jackson, 2 vols (1872), vol. I, p. 126.

25
Voss (xv–3).

26
Taack, Merete von,
Königin Luise: Eine Biographie
(Tübigen 1978), pp. 226–7; Delbruck, Hans, ‘Von der Königin Luise, dem Minister v. Stein und dem deutschen Nationalgedanken’,
Preussische Jahrbücher
, Vol. 136 (1909), p. 452; Maass, Joachim,
Kleist:A Biographe
(1983), pp. 88, 122, 206.

27
Kleist, Henrich von,
Penthesilea: A Tragedy
, English version by Humphrey Trevelyan (1959), Act I, scene xv.

28
Vigée Le Brun (xv–23), II, pp. 168–9.

29
Jackson (XV–24), I, pp. 153, 241; Klett, Tessa,
Königin Luise von Preussen in der Zeit der Napoleonischen Kriege
(Berlin 1937), p. 131.

30
Voss (XV–3), II, pp. 29–30.

31
Voss (XV–3), ii, p. 30.

32
Napoleon (II–14), p. 425.

33
Klett (XV–29), p. 72.

34
Wright (XV–22), p. 81.

35
Krieger, Bogdan, ‘Russischer Besuch am preussischen Hof vor 100 Jahren’,
Deutsche Revue
, Vol. 29 (1904), p. 348.

36
Aretz, Gertrude,
Queen Louise of Prussia 1776–1810
(New York 1929), p. 144.

37
Wright (XV–22), p. 141.

38
Napoleon (II–14), p. 324; Delbrück (xv–26), p. 520.

39
Hardy, Thomas,
The Dynasts: An Epic Drama
(1920), p. 155.

40
Taack (XV–26), p. 371.

41
Mémoires et lettres inédits du Chevalier de Gentz
(Stuttgart 1841), p. 296.

42
Napoleon (II–14), p. 363; Princess Louise of Prussia (Princess Anton Radziwill),
Forty-five Years of My Life 1770–1815
(1912), p. 228.

43
Taack (xv–26), p. 371; Bailleu, Paul,
Königin Luise: Ein Lebensbild
(Berlin and Leipzig 1908), p. 199.

44
Klett (XV–29), p. 145; Leveson-Gower, Lord Granville (First Earl Granville),
Private Correspondence 1781 to 1821
, edited by Castalia Countess Granville, 2 vols (1916), Vol. II, p. 265.

45
Napoleon (II–14), pp. 367–8.

46
Bailleu (XV–43), p. 210.

47
Taack (XV–26), p. 380.

48
Memoirs of Prince Metternich (1773–1815)
, edited by Prince Richard Metternich, Vol. II (1880), p. 144.

49
Klett (XV–29), p. 154; Bailleu, Paul, ‘Königin Luise in Tilsit’,
Hobenzollern Jahrbuch
, 3 Jahrgang (1899), p. 224; Aretz (xv–36), p. 214.

50
Aretz (XV–36), p. 216; Granville (xv–44), II, p. 70; Jackson (xv–24), I, p. 163; Wilson (xv–4), p. 298.