King Charles II

Then follow a number of short, dated passages in prose and verse, beginning with a few from 1677 and 1678. The prophetic refrain Woe to England is heard again.AW draws with gusto on...

Mondisfield Hall, depicted here as it was during the Restoration, is based on Badmondisfield (or Badmondesfield) Hall, an Elizabethan moated manor at Wickhambrook in Suffolk, where as a girl EL used to stay with...

This is another English Civil War story, in which imaginary characters (a pair of courting lovers, a villain, the noble-hearted Charlotte who is based on EL 's nurse during her childhood, and Joscelyn Heyworth and...

In this unusual book CG seems to stand mid-way between Coventry in Pompey, 1752 (using her canine protagonist for intimate satire on the chiefly female upper classes), and Virginia Woolf in Flush, 1933...

This oriental tragedy, set in an exotically-imagined east, opposes a sizzlingly sexual female villain, Homais (played by Elizabeth Barry ), and a model, patient, suffering but excessive heroine, Princess Selima (played by Anne Bracegirdle

Its tone of hyperbolical praise for the monarchy is set by the opening couplet: Hail Mighty Prince! whom Providence design'd / To be the chief delight of Human Kind. The poet recognises the gravity of...

Her protagonist, Lucy Walter , was an actual person, mistress or perhaps wife to Charles II and mother of the Duke of Monmouth . EG was moved to write her story after reading Lucy Walter...

Her own meeting with the monarchy in the person of Queen Anne is handled with hyperbole: it was as Impossible for me Even to Attempt the Beauties of that Excellent Queens Mind, as for Kneller

This is a formal and in many ways old-world celebration, though MC 's irrepressible personality comes through here and there. The title relays the Duke of Newcastle's various honours and peerages. Dedications to the king

In this retrospective work AH expressed horror at the excesses of the Scots Presbyterians . She also gives here the dates of birth and death of her children, details about her financial trouble with her...

MF printed her Letter sent to the King (together with a Paper written unto the Magistrates in 1664, which was then printed, and should have been Dispersed but was Prevented by Wicked Hands).

EJ wrote a play as a vehicle for her friend Baliol Holloway , in which he collaborated with her, supplying the theatrical expertise and especially his sense of stage timing. He played Charles II in...

EIS published, anonymously, her final novel, Dame Rebecca Berry, or, Court Scenes in the Reign of Charles The Second.

AW addressed King Charles II and the Lord Mayor of London in two separate prophecies which deliver apocalyptic judgments on the state of the nation.

The year after her second marriage, AW (with thirty-six other women, including Rebecca Travers and Mary Elson ) signed For the King and both Houses of Parliament, a petition against the imprisonment of Friends