Ephelia,. A Poem to His Sacred Majesty, on the Plot. Henry Brome.
King Charles II
Standard Name: Charles II, King
Used Form: Charles the Second
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| Textual Features | Edna Lyall | 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... |
| Textual Features | Edna Lyall | 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... |
| Textual Features | Catherine Gore | 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... |
| Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | 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 |
| Textual Features | Ephelia | 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. |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Goudge | 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... |
| Residence | Mary Carleton | About her life in CologneMC
says only that the appearance of exiled English cavaliers there gave her a high opinion of their nation, and that she longed to see the banished Charles II
. Suzuki, Mihoko. “The Case of Madam Mary Carleton: Representing the Female Subject, 1663-73”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, pp. 61-83. 81n8, 64 |
| Residence | Iris Tree | IT
's family moved to Walpole House in Chiswick Mall. Charles II
's mistress Barbara, Lady Castlemaine
(patron of Delarivier Manley
) had lived in this house for some years before her death in... |
| Residence | John Locke | Locke spent the latter part of the 1670s in France, and then, for the last couple of years of Charles II
's reign and for the whole of that of James II
, lived... |
| Reception | Georgette Heyer | GH
later called her second novel, The Great Roxhythe. (published with Hutchinson
in 1922 and set late in the reign of Charles II
), the worst book I ever wrote—the sort of book that makes... |
| Publishing | Margaret Fell | |
| Publishing | Margaret Fell | MF
dated her Letter 6 June. Fell, Margaret. A Brief Collection of Remarkable Passages. J. Sowle. 325 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Kunze
gives its title as Epistle to Charles II, August 1666. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. xiii |
| Publishing | Margaret Fell | Around January 1685 (she says both that she was in her seventieth year and that Charles II was very close to his death) she travelled again to London bearing a paper for the king which... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Stirredge | ES
personally placed in the king
's hands a one-paragraph testimony beginning This is unto thee, O King. It was apparently her first venture into writing for print. The ODNB places this event in January... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Hooton | It seems that EH
's petition To the King and both Houses of Parliament was personally presented to Charles
on this day, though not by her. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
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