User:SarahK86/sandbox

Wikipedia Article
I plan to add to the Mary Frith Wikipedia page since it is considered a start up page and can use more information. Besides including more facts about what we know of her life I can also go into more detail on her cross-dressing/smoking and how that challenged gender norms of her day. I plan to use the following sources:

Mowry, Melissa. "Thieves, Bawds, and Counterrevolutionary Fantasies: The Life and Death of Mrs. Mary Frith." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 5, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2005): 26-48.

Rustici, Craig. "The Smoking Girl: Tobacco and the Representation of Mary Frith." Studies in Philosophy 96, no. 2 (Spring 1999): 159-179.

Wynne-Davies, Marion. "Orange Women, Female Spectators, and Roaring Girls: Women and Theater in Early Modern England." Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England 22 (2009): 19-26

Hutchings, Mark. "Mary Frith at the Fortune." Early Theatre 10, no. 1 (2007): 89-108.

SarahK86 (talk) 06:40, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Mary Frith's Image (Article Contribution)
Mary Frith has been regarded as the "first female smoker of England." Most images of her show her smoking a pipe, which was seen as something only men did during her time period. As portrayed though the theater shows of the time, tobacco smoking was not seen as enjoyable to woman. The tobacco smoking was crucial to her image and character, along with the cross-dressing. Her constant smoking and transvestitism went outside social boundaries and caused social disorder. In a way, she was mocking her gender. The way that she dressed and spoke challenged the moral codes of her days.

Mary enjoyed the attention that she received and her theatrical ways were used to upset her fellow citizens. She wanted to make those around her uncomfortable and she wanted to cause a scene. She brought her performances from the stage into real life. In one of her performances, Amends for Ladies which was featured at the Fortune Theatre in London, Mary played a stark contrast to the other female leads. While the other females debated on their role as wife or maid, Mary appeared as a representation of freedom. Freedom is displayed as something that the other females want, but the way that Mary represents it is shown as a negative. By cross-dressing and breaking boundaries, she is shown as having no structure and by gaining freedom she has lost what it is that makes her a woman. Amends for Ladies was meant to show her as a different creature entirely; not the standards that a woman should hold or want to hold. These acts, which crossed into daily life, is what led to her punishment in February of 1611 in which she was forced to do public penance for. SarahK86 (talk) 20:58, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Research Paper
Topic: Anne Boleyn

Research Question: How did Anne Boleyn use her femininity to secure her role as queen and did it contribute to her downfall?

Bibliography:

Ives, Eric. The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.

Bernard, G.W. "The Fall of Anne Boleyn." The English Historical Review 106, no. 420 (July 1991): 584-610

Warnicke, Retha M. "The Fall of Anne Boleyn Revisited." The English Historical Review 108, no. 428 (July 1993): 635-665.

SarahK86 (talk) 06:53, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Good work, Sarah. I think that you'll make a very important and notable contribution to the Wikipedia article using some very good scholarly sources. As for your research paper, you are off to a very good start with a well-articulated working research question and some very good sources. Are there other scholarly biographies on Anne Boleyn that you can find? I suspect that you may need to read more sources for your final paper, but these will give you a good start toward finding arguments among scholars, refining your question/topic and eventually coming up with a working thesis for your Prospectus on March 21. Now it's time to read, read, read those sources. Pay attention to the bibliographies of these sources to see if they lead you to other good sources.

Teacheurohist (talk) 23:51, 3 March 2017 (UTC)Professor Keller-Lapp