21-årig kvinna, möjligen Helena Snakenborg, senare markioninna av Northampton.Konstnär okänd. Från 1569. Till höger brev hon skrev till sin mor 1566.

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Seminariet hålls på engelska.

Abstract

Anglo-Swedish exchanges in the 1560s: Intercepted letters in the Danish National Archives

Some of the early modern exchanges between Sweden and England are well known: Eric Vasa wrote around 30 letters to Elizabeth I. Nils Gyllenstierna’s papers include various letters sent between the countries during his embassy to London. At least one portrait made the journey. In the mid 1560s Cecilia Vasa travelled to England to visit Elizabeth I. The visit was preceded by an exchange of letters between the two women (and the journey documented in a contemporary travelogue). Against this background, my talk focuses on material at Rigsarkivet in Copenhagen, in ‘Danske Kancelli, Opsnappede svenske breve fra Syvårskrigens tid’. I will discuss a letter from Elin (Helena) Snakenborg, later Marchioness of Northampton (1549–1632), sent to her mother in 1566 (Snakenborg having been one of the women who travelled with Cecilia to England). Towards the end of the talk, I would also like to outline some of the other material with an English connection in this collection, in an endeavour shift the focus away from the main players in the diplomatic game, and onto the larger network of various helpers and go-betweens.

Bio

Anna Swärdh is an associate professor at the Department of English, Stockholm University, specializing in the early modern period. Her work covers drama, poetry, and prose genres like letters and travelogues. She has twice received project funding from the Swedish Research Council (“The Emulative Complaint: Imitation and Innovation in Late Elizabethan Complaint Poetry”; “The Rhetoric of Patronage: Cultural Imprints of Helena Northampton”). Her articles appear in journals like Modern Philology, EJES, The Library, and ELR. She has published on historical and contemporary productions and adaptations of Shakespeare.

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