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James Scott, Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch
Standard Name: Monmouth and Buccleuch, James Scott,,, Duke of
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy | Among a number of ladies and noblemen-rakes, a leading character here is Lucy Walter
, mistress and allegedly wife of Charles II
and mother of the notorious Duke of Monmouth
. |
Textual Features | Jane Barker | These royalist poems centre on the female figure of Mary of Modena
. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Aphra Behn | Its topic was the political posturing of Charles
's illegitimate son Monmouth
, Protestant claimant to the succession. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Aphra Behn | Here each of the original pair decides to win the other one back, more as an exercise of power than love. The results are predictably painful. An episode fictionalizes the Duke of Monmouth
's beheading. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press. 351-2 |
Literary Setting | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The novel treats of Monmouth
's Rebellion and other historical events down to the hard winter of 1734, during which the bulk of it was purportedly composed. Redmond, Christopher. A Sherlock Holmes Handbook. Dundurn Press. 77 |
Textual Production | Ephelia | Elias Ashmole
thus dated his copy of a verse broadside, Advice to His Grace (that is, to the Duke of Monmouth
, would-be heir to the throne), by Ephelia
. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ephelia | The broadside advises Monmouth
, the Protestant claimant to succeed to the throne, in no uncertain terms to remember his illegitimate birth, re-awaken his loyalty, to scorn the mob, and to realise that the only... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Goudge | Her protagonist, Lucy Walter
, was an actual person, mistress or perhaps wife to Charles II
and mother of the Duke of Monmouth
. EG
was moved to write her story after reading Lucy Walter... |
politics | Elinor James | EJ
actively exerted an influence on the course of national affairs. She was a radical traditionalist, monarchist, and Jacobite who was critical of all the Stuart monarchs before Queen Anne
, and a high-flying Anglican... |
Literary Setting | Ann Jellicoe | Like all of AJ
's community plays, this one took as its subject an episode in the history of the community—in this case, the Duke of Monmouth
's Rebellion, which began with his landing at... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jenkins | EJ
wrote a play as a vehicle for her friend Baliol Holloway
, in which he collaborated with her, supplying the theatrical expertise and especially his sense of stage timing. He played Charles II
in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ada Leverson | |
Publishing | Anna Maria Mackenzie | Anna Maria Johnson
had a novel entitled Monmouth
: A Tale, Founded on Historical Facts advertised under this name as soon to be published by William Lane
of the Minerva Press
—even though she had... |
Dedications | Anna Maria Mackenzie | This novel is available from Chawton House LibraryNovels Online at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The dedication is dated 1 March and the book was reviewed by July. An advertisement for AMM
's previous novel appears at the... |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | Lucy Walter (who had become a fictional heroine early, in Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
's Memoirs of the Court of England, 1695, and was soon to be treated by Elizabeth Goudge
in The Child from the... |
Timeline
November 1681: John Dryden published his political satire...
Writing climate item
November 1681
John Dryden
published his political satireAbsalom and Achitophel, at Charles II
's personal suggestion, just a week before the first Earl of Shaftesbury
's trial for treason.
6 July 1685: The Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion, aimed at...
National or international item
6 July 1685
The Duke of Monmouth
's Rebellion, aimed at getting possession of the throne, ended in defeat at Sedgemoor in Somerset, with much loss of life.
6 July 1685: The Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion, aimed at...
National or international item
6 July 1685
The Duke of Monmouth
's Rebellion, aimed at getting possession of the throne, ended in defeat at Sedgemoor in Somerset, with much loss of life.
8 July 1685: News reached London of the defeat of Monmouth,...
National or international item
8 July 1685
News reached London of the defeat of Monmouth
, Protestant contender for the throne of his Catholic uncle James II
.
15 July 1685: The Duke of Monmouth was beheaded on Tower...
National or international item
15 July 1685
The Duke of Monmouth
was beheaded on Tower Hill, following his attempt to seize the throne.
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