... of ideals, eternal and a paradigm of political leadership, magnanimity, entirely separate from the body natural, this division enabled Elizabeth to disassociate her role as Queen from her inferior female body. John Knox's The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women likened the political state to the human body. Knox contended that "the head hath [God] joined with ... body politic transferred from male to female, in similar circumstances to that of Elizabeth, culminating in an address by Cleophila to an unruly mob. Alfred Bill states that despite the "backgroun...

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... reinforce the exclusively male dominated medium that produced the literary icons of the time One can see that Woolf's argument substantiated by studying the inequalities in educational, financial and social background by comparing herself with another nineteenth century writer, William Wordsworth. Wordsworth, who was born to a wealthy family and who's father was a very prominent lawyer, had the luxury of studying his ... ...

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