King Charles II

Standard Name: Charles II, King
Used Form: Charles the Second

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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 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 Delarivier Manley
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...
Literary Setting Sarah Green
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...
Literary Setting Penelope Aubin
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,
Aubin, Penelope. A Collection of Entertaining Histories and Novels. D. Midwinter.
146
but still, she says, she...
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 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 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.
1: 7-8
Literary Setting Elizabeth Isabella Spence
EIS is nostalgic about the past here, but also somewhat confused. During her chosen period Rebecca and her contemporaries bore no resemblance to the young women of the present century, for they neither despised nor...
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
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 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...
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/.
politics Elizabeth Hooton
EH went to Whitehall Palace in London and argued with the king .
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press.
128 and n4
politics Hester Biddle
George Fox later reported meeting HB in the Strand in London in about 1657, at a time when Cromwell was persecuting Quakers . She told him of her plan to seek out the future Charles II

Timeline

November 1681: John Dryden published his political satire...

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November 1681

John Dryden published his political satireAbsalom and Achitophel, at Charles II 's personal suggestion, just a week before the first Earl of Shaftesbury 's trial for treason.

22 March 1683: A fire at the racing centre of Newmarket...

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22 March 1683

A fire at the racing centre of Newmarket preserved the lives of Charles II and his brother ; by leaving early for London they avoided a planned assassination.

13 July 1683: William, Lord Russell (husband of the letter-writer...

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13 July 1683

William, Lord Russell (husband of the letter-writer Lady Rachel ), stood trial for High Treason, accused of planning to assassinate the king in an alleged Protestant Plot.

30 January 1685: John Evelyn observed Charles II, a week before...

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30 January 1685

John Evelyn observed Charles II , a week before he died, sitting and toying with three of his mistresses, listening to a french boy singing love songs, while courtiers played basset (a card game) for...

6 February 1685: King Charles II died and his brother James...

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6 February 1685

King Charles II died and his brother James II (who was also James VII of Scotland) assumed the throne.

6 July 1685: The Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion, aimed at...

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6 July 1685

The Duke of Monmouth 's Rebellion, aimed at getting possession of the throne, ended in defeat at Sedgemoor in Somerset, with much loss of life.

February 1689 to October 1791: The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between...

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February 1689 to October 1791

The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between supporters of the deposed James II (who landed at Kinsale on 12 March 1689 with substantial French forces) and supporters of William of Orange (who had assumed...

April 1698: Jeremy Collier published his Short View of...

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April 1698

Jeremy Collier published his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, a book in heavy-handed pamphlet style with exaggerated typography.

1702-1704: The History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde,...

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1702-1704

The History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon , was posthumously published.

8 March 1702: King William III died and Queen Anne assumed...

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8 March 1702

King William III died and Queen Anne assumed the throne; she was crowned on 23 April, which was Charles II 's coronation day as well as St George's Day.

Between March 1844 and August 1845: The hugely prolific Alexandre Dumas published...

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Between March 1844 and August 1845

The hugely prolific Alexandre Dumas published not only his best-known novel, The Three Musketeers, but also The Count of Monte-Cristo, Twenty Years After, and La Reine Margot.

Mid-March 2009: The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, a home for British...

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Mid-March 2009

The Royal Hospital, Chelsea , a home for British Army veterans founded by Charles II in 1682, admitted its two first female pensioners, Dorothy Hughes and Winifred Phillips , both in their eighties.

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