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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Publishing | Ephelia | The initial letter H (Hail Mighty Prince!) in the 1679 reprint is rendered by a woodcut ornament or factotum with portraits of two crowned figures, one of each sex, with the royal rose... |
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 Production | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater | Of the ten children borne by Elizabeth (both as Lady Brackley and as Lady Bridgewater), seven outlived her although only four seem to have lived long enough to reach modern records: John
, born on... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater | Lionel Cranfield, third Earl of Middlesex
, challenged Lord Bridgewater (who had just been appointed guardian of his niece) to a duel in deliberately insulting language—Billingsgate dialect, Bridgewater called it, from the notoriously... |
politics | John Dryden | By the time this poem saw print, the inadequacy of the Cromwell dynasty was becoming apparent, and Dryden's next important poem hailed the return of Charles II
. It is hardly fair to call him... |
Health | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | |
Textual Production | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | DSCS
's first surviving letter to her much younger brother Henry Sidney
(later Earl of Romney) reported on a serious illness of the king
's. She followed this with political news, including details on the... |
Author summary | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | While Dorothy, Countess of Sunderland
, has been known historically as the Sacharissa of Edmund Waller
's poetry, she was also a respected and memorable letter writer. Most of her surviving letters date from her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | |
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 | 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 |
Employer | Abraham Cowley | He began writing poetry early, and also served as secretary to a diplomat and perhaps as a royalist spy during the English Civil War. He later felt that the royal family, that is Charles II |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Cassandra Cooke | Other events follow the ending of the inset tale. Dr Scot is involved in a hush-hush mission with General Monck
, facilitating the Restoration of Charles II
. The story cannot end until the title... |
politics | Elizabeth Cellier | In this month and again in June, EC
was acquitted on two charges of plotting to kill the king
and overthrow the monarchy and church. Cellier, Elizabeth. Malice Defeated and The Matchless Rogue. Editor Gardiner, Anne Barbeau, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California. 33, 41-2 |
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