Talk:Elizabeth Cromwell

POV
This is written from an early Victorian Tory source, still mourning for King Charles the Martyr. This will not do; modern sources exist. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 21:05, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Which paragraph do you think shows the most bias? -- PBS (talk) 21:55, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Most of it could be worse; Jesse appears to have rebuked mere partisan scurrility. But this with a negative quotation in extenso is pretty bad:


 * The abuse is shortly afterwards repeated. "Much ado had she at first to raise her mind and deportment to this sovereign grandeur; and very difficult it was for her to lay aside those impertinent meannesses of her private fortune: like the bride-cat, by Venus's favour metamorphosed into a comely virgin, that could not forbear catching at mice, she could not comport with her present condition, nor forget the common converse and affairs of life. But like some kitchen-maid, preferred by the lust of some rich and noble dotard, was ashamed of her sudden and gaudy bravery, and for a while skulked up and down the house, till the fawning observance and reverences of her slaves had raised her to a confidence, not long after sublimed into an impudence." Her behaviour, however, on her elevation is somewhat differently represented by Ludlow. The republican, who knew her personally and well, informs us that when her husband changed his residence from the cockpit at Whitehall to the royal palace, she was at first anything but gratified with the splendid change in her domestic arrangements. Heath, on the contrary asserts, that "she was trained up and made the waiting woman of Cromwell's providence, and lady rampant of his successful greatness, which she personated afterwards as imperiously as himself."


 * and the reference to Cromwell as "the Usurper," especially writing of 1648, ia not what a neutral text would do. But I tag in the hope somebody will rewrite from less dated (and polemical) sources. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 22:07, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Section too long
The section Protectress Joan is far too long. It needs to be broken into subsections as it's very difficult to follow this way.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 09:52, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Lady Protectress
"She is sometimes referred to as the Lady Protectress" citing:

The person who wrote this article Samira Ahmed is a journalist. This claim needs an academic source, because it could just as easily be a hook to interest (American) audiences who are familiar with "First Lady".

As her husband was a gentleman, it would not be at all unlikely that she would have been called Lady as a form of address. That a title "Lady Protectress" is or was widely used needs more than w BBC article to support it.

-- PBS (talk) 12:15, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Bourchier was an Huguenot or Jewess or somesuch background.
Somewhat taken aback that it is not byworded. 2A00:23C7:2B13:9001:2499:E57:D206:D58 (talk) 17:02, 7 November 2022 (UTC)