Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 3-7.
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King Charles II
Standard Name: Charles II, King
Used Form: Charles the Second
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Lady Rachel Russell | LRR
's second husband (who became William, Lord Russell
, in 1678 by the death of his elder brother) became more and more active in opposition to Charles II
. From this time LRR
was... |
| politics | Anne Halkett | In Edinburgh she met the future Charles II
and other monarchist leaders. |
| politics | Elinor James | EJ
actively exerted an influence on the course of national affairs. She was a radical traditionalist, monarchist, and Jacobite who was critical of all the Stuart monarchs before Queen Anne
, and a high-flying Anglican... |
| politics | John Milton | |
| 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/. |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 |
| Literary Setting | Isabella Neil Harwood | The second play in this volume, Lord and Lady Russell was met with much less interest than Elfinella. It is a historical drama set in the court of King Charles II
. The despicable... |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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, 1794, 3 vols. 1: 7-8 |
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