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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 | 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... |
Textual Production | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | Some time after January 1817 SSW
published, with her name, a chapbook version of Jane Porter
's The Pastor's Fire-Side. She used a much extended, highly descriptive title: The Pastor's Fireside; or, Memoirs of... |
Textual Production | Anne Whitehead | 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 |
Textual Features | Anne Wentworth | 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. Wentworth, Anne. The Revelation of Jesus Christ. 2 |
Textual Production | Anne Wentworth | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Elizabeth Walker | In 1685, perhaps in connection with the death of Charles II
and the succession of the openly Catholic James II
, Anthony Walkersuffered some form of persecution for ten days and seems to have... |
Textual Features | Katharine Tynan | These fictions tend to juggle stock elements. The House of the Crickets explores the parental tyranny said to be characteristic of rural Irish family life. Tynan, Katharine. The Wandering Years. Constable. 246 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Trotter | Her mother, born Sarah Ballenden, was related to three separate Scots noble families. She brought up her daughters at first on an Admiralty pension (discontinued on Charles II
's death, restored by Queen Anne
)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Trotter | CT
's father, David Trotter, a naval officer in the service of Charles II
, died of the plague at Scanderoon in Turkey in early 1684, when his daughter Catharine was probably nine. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago. 406 Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate. 3 and n10 |
Textual Production | Rose Tremain | RT
set her historical novel Restoration (as its name implies) during the reign of Charles II
, though it uses that period under which to figure contemporary Britain. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 271 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ray Strachey | Richard Keigwin, a Cornishman, was a naval officer with the East India Company
and had a distinguished record when, together with other soldiers who had not been paid, he led a local rebellion against the... |
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... |
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