Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press.
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Textual Production | Aphra Behn | After James II
had fled the country in 1688, AB
received a flattering invitation from Gilbert Burnet
(who in 1682 had tried to divide her from Anne Wharton
on moral grounds) to welcome the new... |
politics | Hester Biddle | By this stage in her life she had been imprisoned fourteen times over a period of fifty years. The Society of Friends
gave her permission for her journey. Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press. 389 |
Residence | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | Ancestors bearing the same name as her father had first bought the Blarney Castle in County Cork estate in 1688 (after Donogh McCarthy, fourth Earl of Clancarthy
, had forfeited it for supporting James II |
Family and Intimate relationships | Brilliana, Lady Harley | Lady Harley tried but failed to get Edward elected to parliament at the age of eighteen. Later he held the seat for Hereford. He commanded a troop of horse in the parliamentary army, and was... |
Residence | Elizabeth Burnet | During the reign of James II
, Elizabeth Berkeley and her husband lived abroad at her persuasion, near the court of William of Orange
(the future William III of England) at The Hague in the... |
Wealth and Poverty | Sarah Butler | This SB
, whom her editors believe not to be the writer, received a pension from the British crown under William III
, but it ended on the king's death, and she later experienced debtors'... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Sarah Butler | After the death of King William
in March 1702 and the termination of a pension paid by him to the woman who may possibly have been SB
the future novelist, she wrote two petitions from... |
Textual Features | May Crommelin | She treats there the atrocities suffered by her Protestant Huguenot
ancestors in France in the seventeenth century, and the part played by her family in British history as supporters of William III
. Crommelin, May. “Introduction”. Orange Lily, edited by Philip Robinson, Ullans Press, p. vii - xi. x |
Textual Features | May Crommelin | The book is headed with romantic lines from Thomas Davies [sic]
about successive migrants and visitors to Ireland, from the brown Phoenician to the iron Lords of Normandy. Crommelin, May. Orange Lily. Ullans Press. 1 |
Dedications | Alicia D'Anvers | ADA
's first published work, A Poem upon His Sacred Majesty
, His Voyage to Holland, was licensed for publication; it appeared by January 1691, dedicated to Queen Mary
. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago. 376 |
Textual Production | Alicia D'Anvers | It bore the author's name and a subtitle: By Way of a Dialogue between Belgia and Britannia.ADA
aimed to drum up support for the anti-French views which William III
was to expound at a... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | |
Textual Production | Margaret Fell | 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... |
politics | Margaret Fell | In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. 87 |
politics | Margaret Fell |
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