King Charles II

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 inflicted...

In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship.George Fox continued to frequent Swarthmoor, and at the time of the Restoration (May 1660) was...

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...

The double agent Willoughby (otherwise Thomas Dangerfield ) had concealed the evidence in order to incriminate her. Interrogated in Newgate PrisonNewgate Prison, EC proved bold and disrespectful of authority. She was, she said, not the...

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 .

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In her preface PA claims that but for her publisher's advice to study the market, she would at this stage have chosen to write something more serious and learned, but still, she says, she...