#elizabeth norton

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Elizabeth Norton. Little Grey Cat, 1926

Elizabeth Norton, Gentleman from Siam, color linocut, 1935

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It has been suggested that Anne [Boleyn] was seen as 'particularly receptive to female petitioners'. She is known to have assisted her aunt, Katherine Howard, in her attempts to obtain a separation from her husband.

Anne Boleyn: In Her Own Words & the Words of Those Who Knew Her, Elizabeth Norton

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— Sir John Russel & Thomas Cromwell

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Books of 2024 #5

The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton

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Whatever trades or occupations women's aspirations or needs led them to, there remained also the many domestic roles that women were expected to perform. And in an age when doctors were expensive, this included proficiency in preparing medicines for their families. Indeed, this was the first virtue of 'a complete woman', considered the writer Gervaise Markham in his 1615 tract on […] The English Housewife. He provided recipes for treating a wide range of disorders, from excessive sweating to headaches and the alarmingly named 'frenzy'.

The English housewife was, contemporaries considered, almost a doctor in her own home. Were one of her household struck down with a fever, she should take spoonfuls of rosewater, aquavite (an alcoholic spirit), running water, vinegar and the fascinatingly named dragon water, as well as half a spoonful of mithridate – a semi-mythical remedy that would be rather hard for the average Tudor woman to obtain – and beat them all together before offering it to the afflicted person. If a family member were to be troubled with a sore, she could make a poultice from elder leaves soaked in milk, and then strained, before boiling the concotion until it was thick.

For the dreaded 'frenzy' or inflammation of the brain, beetroot juice should be squirted up the nose in order to 'purge and clean [the] head exceedingly'. Ale could then be drunk, to which boiled violet leaves and lettuce were added to 'suddenly bring [the patient] to a very temperate mildness, and make the passion of the frenzy forsake him'.

  —  The Lives of Tudor Women (Elizabeth Norton)

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Monthly Reading Summary – June 2024

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in sunshine and in shade

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Lots of folks ask me about the process of putting together books that are chock full of imagery. Though the end result can be a treasure to behold, the journey along the way is often pretty frustrating! I wrote about this a few years ago using the example of one of the artists who is not in my book, The Art of the Occult, and all of the reasons that might be: The Art Of The Occult And The Elusive Rosaleen Norton.

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part 3: Sept 2024. Many improvements made

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Elizabeth Norton

Chi-Ku

1931

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In 1495, the king allowed his sister-in-law, Anne of York, to marry Surrey's son in fulfilment of the couple's long-standing betrothal. This was clear evidence of royal favour and Elizabeth [Howard], who by 1495 was of marriageable age herself, also saw her own prospects rise. [...] If Elizabeth was still unmarried in 1495 when her own brother married, she gained a new companion with the arrival of her sister-in-law, Princess Anne of York, who, under the terms of the marriage contract, was to live with her parents-in-law while her sister, the queen, paid an annual sum for her clothes and expenses.

The Boleyn Women, by Elizabeth Norton

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Judy Norton (Mary Ellen Walton), Leslie Winston Yannetti (Cindy Walton), and Mary McDonough (Erin Walton) from The Waltons.

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i am the cathy outside the window to norton’s heathcliff let me in it’s so cold outside with no academic literature about jane seymour let me innn