King Charles II

On the Restoration of Charles IIJM (who had unmistakably written to blacken the reputation of Charles I as a ruler, as well as against tyrants, that is unjust rulers, in general) felt himself quite...

In Edinburgh she met the future Charles II and other monarchist leaders.

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

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...

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 .

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...

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

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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.

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...