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Family and Intimate relationships | Grisell Murray | As Grisell Baillie
's story makes clear, her father, Sir Patrick Hume, later Earl of Marchmont
, Grisell Murray's maternal grandfather, was an important figure in Scotland, a national and religious (Presbyterian) leader. So was... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances, Lady Norton | Frances Freke married George Norton
of Abbots Leigh in North Somerset (a house which was famous for having sheltered the disguised fugitive future Charles II
in autumn 1651 after the battle of Worcester). The date... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Lucy Herbert | Lady Powis
, mother of two future writers (Lucy
and Winifred
, then about ten and seven), joined her husband
in the Tower of London, on a charge of Roman Catholic plotting against... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Lucy Herbert | Lucy's father, William Herbert
, owned estates in Wales and the Welsh marches, although much of the family's large properties had been forfeited after they fought for the monarchy in the English Civil War... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Teresia Constantia Phillips | Constantia had as godmother the dowager Duchess of Bolton
, who was an illegitimate grand-daughter of Charles II
through the once-notorious Duke of Monmouth. As a child Constantia was a member of the duchess's household... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laetitia Pilkington | LP
was proud of her mother's descent from Colonel William Meade
(her own great-grandfather), who fought for Charles II
in the Civil War. Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., University of Georgia Press. 2: 363 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Her father, Walter Singer
, a well-to-do wool merchant and a dissenting minister, had been imprisoned at Ilchester for his beliefs under Charles II
(and had met his future wife when she came prison visiting)... |
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... |
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 |
Dedications | Mary Carleton | According to critic Mihoko Suzuki
, The Case incorporates two portraits of its protagonist. The same plate was apparently used in two versions, one revised as to the hairstyle and ageing of the face. One... |
Dedications | Aphra Behn | According to its title-page, it was published in 1689. O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Garland. 155 |
Dedications | Elizabeth Polwhele | Since it has prologue, epilogue, and cast-list, the play was evidently meant for performance; it was probably performed, though the sparse theatre records of this time bear no trace of it. Polwhele, Elizabeth. “Introduction: A ’Lost’ Play and its Context”. The Frolicks, edited by Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume, Cornell University Press, pp. 13-49. 36 |
Dedications | Anna Maria Mackenzie | This novel is available from Chawton House LibraryNovels Online at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The dedication is dated 1 March and the book was reviewed by July. An advertisement for AMM
's previous novel appears at the... |
Cultural formation | Agnes Beaumont | Hers was the first name that Bunyan entered as joining this Puritan
congregation, not long after his release from prison under the terms of Charles II
's Declaration of Indulgence (promulgated on 15 March 1672)... |
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