Diana Primrose
Diana Primrose (active c. 1630) 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).
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Diana Primrose (active c. 1630) 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).
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The work is made up of ten "Pearles" or short poems. It is likely the poet used an allegorical pseudonym. The Primrose family was well established in Scotland at this time, though there is no record of a "Diana." Since no written documentation of the author's true identity exists, there is no consensus that this person was even female.
• 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. "Given Names c. 1450–1650." 2010. Ancestry.com. April 2010 • Anonymous. "Pearls in Human History" 2010. American Museum of Natural History. April 2010 • —. "The Rich History of Pearls" 2006. Pearl Oasis. April 2010 • —. UNRV History. 2003–2010. April 2010 <>. • self published website; and Jorge H. Castelli is not an expert • 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. The Faerie Queen. 1590. Early English Books Online. 7 April 2010
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- 1.Diana Primrose – Oxford Reference. oxfordreference.com.
- 2.Pentland, Elizabeth. The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. American Cancer Society. 2017. 978-1-118-29735-3.
- 3.The Poets, Isabella Whitney, Anne Dowriche, Elizabeth Melville [Colville], Aemilia Lanyer, Rach w KrainaKsiazek.pl. krainaksiazek.pl.
- 4.The Rosebery Family History. roseberyestates.co.uk.
- 5.Clarke, Danielle. Nostalgia, Anachronism, and the Editing of Early Modern Women's Texts. Text. 15. 187–209. 2003. 30227791.
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