Cromwell, Thomas
Cromwell, Thomas (
c.1485–1540) English statesman, chief minister to Henry VIII (1531–40). After serving Cardinal Wolsey from 1514, he succeeded him as the king's chief adviser. He presided over the king's divorce from Catherine of Aragon (1533) and his break with the Roman Catholic Church, as well as the dissolution of the monasteries and a series of administrative measures, such as the Act of Supremacy (1534), designed to strengthen the Crown. He fell from favour over Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves and was executed on a charge of treason.
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A New Letter by Washington Irving.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...ruling "anthological czar" (Cutting 227) was Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815-57), the Baptist minister who edited...Literature. 2 vols. New York: Scribner, 1855. Griswold, Rufus. "Notices of New Publications: The Cyclopaedia...
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Legacy Profile: Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet (1818-1877)
Magazine article from: Legacy; 4/30/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...prominent literary men, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Rufus W. Griswold. Consequently, despite her pioneering work as...the words of her male rivals, Edgar Allan Poe and Rufus Wilmot Griswold. Nearly all attention given Ellet depicts her as...
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Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet (1818-1877).(19th-century writer, historian of women's lives)
Magazine article from: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...prominent literary men, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Rufus W. Griswold. Consequently, despite her pioneering work as...the words of her male rivals, Edgar Allan Poe and Rufus Wilmot Griswold. Nearly all attention given Ellet depicts her as...
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Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 9/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...executor (or executioner!) Rufus Wilmot Griswold's smudged picture, and filtered...hoodwinked down the years. The Griswold obituary (pseudonymous) and...of modern scholarship is that Griswold deliberately exaggerated Poe...
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Into the abyss.(Poe: A Life Cut Short)(Book review)
Magazine article from: National Review; 2/9/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...literary executor, an ambitious minor poet named Rufus Wilmot Griswold. Much of the history of Poe's reputation for the...some distance between the facts of Poe's life and Griswold's assertions (which he calls "the most lethal...
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"But Maria, did you really write this?" Preface as Cover Story in Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok
Magazine article from: Legacy; 10/31/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Child (Collected Correspondence, letter 646) When Lydia Maria Child wrote this account in an 1846 letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold, she was forty-four years of age and at the height of her career as a writer and reformer. Her correspondent...
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"But Maria, did you really write this?": Preface as Cover Story in Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok.
Magazine article from: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Child (Collected Correspondence, letter 646) When Lydia Maria Child wrote this account in an 1846 letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold, she was forty-four years of age and at the height of her career as a writer and reformer. Her correspondent...
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Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Rufus Wilmot Griswold 1815-57, American editor, b. Benson, Vt. He was influential as editor of Graham's Magazine...Poe's own. Bibliography: See his selected letters and papers (ed. by his son, W. McC. Griswold, 1898).
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Griswold, Rufus Wilmot
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Griswold, Rufus Wilmot (1815–57), born in Vermont, was a prominent Philadelphia and New York journalist, editing Graham's Magazine...
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