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This chapter discusses mixed-sex literary collaboration by examining an anonymous work that is now regarded as a translation by Queen Katherine Parr: Psalms or Prayers taken out of Holy Scripture (1544). Although Parr has been identified as the book’s composer, patron, or translator, I argue that the text is best understood as the product of a particular kind of “royal collaboration,” one in which Parr was writing for, writing with, and writing as Henry VIII as he prepared for war in 1544. New evidence pertaining to Parr’s politically sensitive sources strongly suggests that she must have consulted extensively with Henry as she translated, and the collaborative ventriloquism that emerges from the text sheds new light on Parr’s important role in Henry’s military campaign.
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White, M. (2017). Katherine Parr, Henry VIII, and Royal Literary Collaboration. In: Pender, P. (eds) Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration . Early Modern Literature in History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58777-6_2
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