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Literary Setting | Anna Kingsford | Nearly all the stories are historical fictions, set variously in the time of Plato
(365 BC), the reign of Marcus Aurelius
(179 AD), and that of Charles II
. Their settings range from ancient Greece... |
Literary Setting | Sarah Pearson | An introductory address To the Reviewers urges them (with the trembling deemed appropriate for a woman writer) not to read the book in the morning but in the period of good humour after dinner. Pearson, Susanna. The Medallion. G. G. and J. Robinson. 1: 7-8 |
Literary Setting | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | EIS
is nostalgic about the past here, but also somewhat confused. During her chosen period Rebecca and her contemporaries bore no resemblance to the young women of the present century, for they neither despised nor... |
Literary Setting | Anna Steele | The novel begins with the Lisle family taking up residence at the ill-fated house of Gardenhurst, an estate that had been gambled away by its young heir during the reign of Charles II
, and... |
Literary Setting | Jeanette Winterson | The novel is primarily set in seventeenth-century London during the reign of Charles II
, but it also features episodes in past, present, and future time. The text is divided by a section containing a... |
Literary Setting | Virginia Woolf | The protagonist of Orlando notoriously begins as a sixteen-year-old romantic boy in the attic of a palatial great house in the late sixteenth century, practising sword-thrusts at the shrunken head of a Moor killed by... |
Literary Setting | Julia Stretton | Fan-fan is Patty's first heroine. After one or two more she explains how it happens that she has written all these papers. That is to say, how Robert and I did, for of course I... |
Literary Setting | Sarah Green | It opens in France and England during what was in England the interregnum period, and moves onwards into the reign of Charles II
. The heroine writes her story retrospectively in a letter to a... |
Literary Setting | Delarivier Manley | Queen Zarah purports to be translated, not from French but from Italian. In it England is Albigion. The critical preface is in fact a translation of part of Morvan de Bellegarde
's Lettres curieuses... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Delaval | Though ED
never composed another substantial work, writing remained a significant element in her economically and politically active life. During the 1670s, the decade of her first marriage, she addressed several petitions to Charles II |
Material Conditions of Writing | Catharine Macaulay | She was apparently well advanced with volume 6 in October 1773, before she moved to Bath, though it did not reach the public till 1781. It and its companion volume, on the reign of... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Antonia Fraser | During the hot summer of 1976, she says, she was bogged down in her work on a biography of Charles II
, so she turned aside and wrote this story in six weeks. It was... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Delaval | At not yet fourteen, Lady Elizabeth Livingston (later Delaval)
, was appointed one of the maids of the privy chamber to Charles II
's newly-married wife, Catherine of Braganza
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Elizabeth Cellier | In this month and again in June, EC
was acquitted on two charges of plotting to kill the king
and overthrow the monarchy and church. Cellier, Elizabeth. Malice Defeated and The Matchless Rogue. Editor Gardiner, Anne Barbeau, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California. 33, 41-2 |
politics | Elizabeth Cellier | EC
was to perform the semi-illicit task of distributing charitable donations which had been gathered for poor Catholics in prison. She also compiled a dossier, with names of witnesses, of the Tyrannical Barbarisme Cellier, Elizabeth. Malice Defeated and The Matchless Rogue. Editor Gardiner, Anne Barbeau, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California. 5 |
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