Fiennes, Celia. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes. Editor Morris, Christopher, Macdonald; Webb and Bower.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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politics | Celia Fiennes | In politics CF
was an ardent Whig: King William III
was her hero. Fiennes, Celia. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes. Editor Morris, Christopher, Macdonald; Webb and Bower. 116 |
politics | Anne Finch | |
politics | Anne Finch | 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... |
Textual Features | Sarah Fyge | |
Publishing | Anne Halkett | 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... |
Textual Features | Anna Maria Hall | 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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Lady Lucy Herbert | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Susanna Hopton | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susanna Hopton | 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... |
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... |
Textual Features | Elinor James | 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... |
Reception | Elinor James | 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... |
Literary Setting | Edna Lyall | 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... |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | 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. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 173 Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 74 |
Textual Features | M. Marsin | The title-page of the first of these explains that it is laid down in a plain, and easie method, fitted to the understanding of the meanest reader. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
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