tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post295044369376208192..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: The New Elizabethans by Mary HoffmanMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-41447527306296828022012-04-25T10:57:56.370+01:002012-04-25T10:57:56.370+01:00What fun on a dreary late April day...
So, here go...What fun on a dreary late April day...<br />So, here goes:<br />Mary Queen of Scots/Edward and Wallis, Duke & Duchess of Windsor <br />Bess of Hardwick: Hmm, the current dowager Duchess of Devonshire (has the property & complex family past!)<br />John Dee: a scientist that saw/sees beyond the normal, e.g. Jocelyn Bell-Burnell <br />Sir Walter Ralegh: Sir Richard Branson (beard and all)...<br />Inigo Jones: Zaha Hadid? <br />Sir Francis Bacon: much more difficult. Perhaps someone like George Monbiot or Tony Benn, with his upper class background but concern for larger social/environmental concernsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-67956194375027319992012-03-01T22:42:24.918+00:002012-03-01T22:42:24.918+00:00I'm delighted we had a children's author i...I'm delighted we had a children's author in the list in JK Rowling. I suppose Phillip Pullman should be added.And amongst artists for the new Elizabethan age we shouldn't forget the studio potters Lucie Rie and Bernard Leech who laid down the foundation of modern British pottery... to be followed by Edmund de Waal perhaps.Dianne Hofmeyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222157214605257030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-57516656598605054592012-03-01T20:17:28.798+00:002012-03-01T20:17:28.798+00:00I can remember growing up being told that we were ...I can remember growing up being told that we were the 'New Elizabethans.' The difference between the Elizabeths is that the first one was highly cultured and learned, and a poet in her own right..<br />What the second Bess has that the first one didn't, is novelists - or were there some novels already in Tudor times? Glad Hilary Mantel has already rated a mensh. Margaret Atwood, since she's in the Commonwealth.<br />I'd like to nominate Lindis Percy, for her heroic and self-sacrificing resistance to nuclear weapons, and all the Greenham Wimmin, actually. Definitely Shirley Williams. And all the parents, in whatever walk of life, who have worked so hard to raise successive generations. Then there's the founder of the Medical Foundation, Helen Bamber, and how's about Rabbi Lionel Blue?Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-454631331108944382012-03-01T12:02:29.126+00:002012-03-01T12:02:29.126+00:00I suppose Norman Foster or David Chipperfield for ...I suppose Norman Foster or David Chipperfield for architects. Leonard Cohen is excluded by his nationality? As is Steve Jobs?michelle lovrichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01026972300195225090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-91453179019357814012012-03-01T09:52:40.798+00:002012-03-01T09:52:40.798+00:00Yes but she lived here, Anne. I love the idea of L...Yes but she lived here, Anne. I love the idea of Lady Dracula! <br /><br />I don't think the great Elizabethans also have to be good.Mary Hoffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-10007764415795440672012-03-01T07:39:23.123+00:002012-03-01T07:39:23.123+00:00I shall be thinking about this all day! Off the to...I shall be thinking about this all day! Off the top of my head, I'd like to nominate Ninette de Valois... & Rudolf Nureyev!H.M. Castorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716936870601385683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-49394103334672853132012-03-01T07:11:39.197+00:002012-03-01T07:11:39.197+00:00What a splendid idea!
But Elizabeth Bathory??? E...What a splendid idea! <br /><br />But Elizabeth Bathory??? East European psychopath and serial killer? Er, Harold Shipman? Not someone I would nominate as a great Elizabethan, unless we are turning to the dark side.Stroppy Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16560035800075465845noreply@blogger.com