The full title goes on for an extended paragraph. This tract was dedicated to King William
.
Burns, William E. “’By Him the Women will be delivered from that Bondage, which some has found intolerable’: M. Marsin, English Millenarian Feminist”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, pp. 19-38.
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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/.
Two Sorts of Latter Days is dedicated to the king
.
Burns, William E. “’By Him the Women will be delivered from that Bondage, which some has found intolerable’: M. Marsin, English Millenarian Feminist”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, pp. 19-38.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Grisell Murray
George was part of William of Orange
's 1689 expedition to claim the throne of England, which was almost shipwrecked on the way.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under George Baillie
His estates were restored after the Glorious Revolution, and...
Literary responses
Charlotte O'Conor Eccles
Once again reviewers (as quoted at the back of The Matrimonial Lottery) were delighted with these [c]lever studies of Irish life and character. The Athenæum praised especially those stories which reflected first-hand knowledge (with...
Occupation
Dorothy Osborne
DO
also visited Brussels and the Hague, for the purpose of diplomatic negotiation on the affairs of the royal family. She was instrumental in arranging the marriage of William
and Mary.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Literary Setting
Ouida
The title piece is set during the Glorious Revolution and begins just before James II
is forced from the throne by William of Orange
. The story's characters naturally take the romantic side: as Jacobites...
Textual Production
Mary Pix
He had been a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to William III
, and at the time of his death was one of the Commissioners for the Union of Scotland with England.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press.
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Textual Features
Mary Pix
The tendency of the story is anti-Catholic, but criticism is also levelled against the king
's favourites.
Textual Production
Jean Plaidy
The other novels in the series are The Three Crowns (1965), about William of Orange
; The Haunted Sisters (1966), about Mary
, who marries William and reigns jointly with him in England, and Anne
Literary Setting
Emma Robinson
This was set in the days when the Dutch Protestants in the Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium and part of northern France), led by William of Orange
(that is, William the Silent, 1533-84), rebelled...
Friends, Associates
Catharine Colace Ross
CCR
offered support and concern to Thomas Hog
(a minister near Auldearn on the Moray Firth, who ended up as a royal chaplain to King William
) while he was being persecuted for his...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Elizabeth Singer Rowe
It gathered together published and unpublished work (some written at boarding-school) both religious and secular: hymns, epistles, odes, pastorals (including an imitation of Anne Killigrew
and an elegy for Queen Mary
), praise of King William
politics
Lady Rachel Russell
William
and Mary
vindicated the memory of LRR
's husband
by reversing the attainder on him, six years after he was executed.
Schwoerer, Lois. Lady Rachel Russell: "One of the Best of Women". Johns Hopkins University Press.
188
politics
Sarah, Lady Cowper
SLC
took a keen and informed spectator's interest in local and national politics, but whereas her husband and his family were Whigs, she inclined rather towards the Tories. Reading Clarendon
's history of the civil...