King Charles II

LH composed and signed in her husband 's name a petition that the House of Commonswould not exclude me from the refuge of the King 's most gratious pardon.

ER published Whitefriars; or, The Days of Charles the Second, her first, anonymous historical romance, bearing the date of 1844; it was praised to the skies in the Athenæum.

The title of the folio is The History of The Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II. King of England and Lord of Ireland. With The Rise and Fall of his great Favourites, Gaveston and...

AH composed an essay Upon the last Change of Publick Affairs and upon the Return of the King.

EJ published her only known verse broadside, This Day Did God . . ., which returns to the topic of Charles II .

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.

MF addressed the restored monarch boldly and directly in a number of works; she was the first to explain to him the non-violent nature of Quakerism .

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

The end of Charles II 's reign in 1685 drew from AB three poems of political commentary: A Pindarick on the Death of Our Late Sovereign (the only one by a woman among dozens of...

EL 's historical novel In the Golden Days, published this month, was the book which Ruskin 's niece Joan (Mrs Arthur) Severn was reading to him just before his death.

Anne Kingsmill (later AF ) is now suspected to have written the libretto for John Blow 's masque Venus and Adonis, composed during the reign of Charles II and now sometimes called the first...