King William III

Walpole thought CM 's principles sounder and more securely settled than Burke's, while Burke (coining the term republican Virago) judged her the ablest among his opponents. But John Wilkes astutely pointed out...

The story revolves around Jacobite plots and persecution of Quakers in the period when Queen Mary II was Regent for her husband, William , during his absences abroad. It introduces actual characters like the former...

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...

James's strong admonitory style has much in common with that of religious prophets. She is equally ready to cross swords with Quakers and Dissenters on the one hand and Catholics on the other, to venerate...

Her offence was not only This Being Your Majesty 's Birth-Day (which she had written and printed as well as selling) but any of one of at least eight broadsides this year condemning William and...

In the year 1689 SH became a Jacobite. She felt that William and Mary had no right to the English throne, which still belonged in principle to James II . She made herself a strong...

In this remarkably self-assured letter SH takes a challenging, uncompromising tone. She urges Geers to leave the mainstream (schismatic) Anglican Church , now it has vowed loyalty to William and Mary , and to enter...

Most of the remaining Powis family estates, valued at £10,000 a year, were re-assigned to Whigs by William III after 1688. It took LLH 's relations years of struggle to recoup some of them.

This novel is set in France, England, and Ireland. The action occurs in the seventeenth century as a Huguenot girl escapes oppression in France by fleeing to England and then Ireland...

In this year there reached print at Edinburgh, together with three works by AH , a printed version of her memoirs, radically recast by S. C. (who was probably Simon Couper , one of...

The volume nicely mixes the personal and political. SF shows daring in expressions of love and of refusal to accept conventional restraints of all kinds. She reprints all four of her poems on Dryden 's...

AF 's husband was arrested, accused of plotting against William and Mary .

He was discharged for lack of evidence seven months later. He remained a Non-Juror: that is, he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the new monarchs, William and Mary, a refusal which would...

In politics CF was an ardent Whig: King William III was her hero.

MF composed one of the last of her writings included in her collected works: To King William (personally delivered to the king by Susan Ingram ); the others were To Edmund Waller, and An...