Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press.
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Textual Production | Anne Finch | AF
wrote an elegy, On the Lord Dundee, commemorating John Graham of Claverhouse, who died fighting for James II
at the battle of Killiecrankie. Biographer Barbara McGovern
refers to this Scottish monarchist hero... |
Textual Production | Anne Finch | AF
lamented the death of the former James II
in an elegy published as By a lady Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. O194 James died in France on 16 September (New Style), which at... |
Textual Production | Rosemary Sutcliff | Dundee began his distinguished military career as a scourge of the Covenanters
. It was cut short at the battle of Killiecrankie where he was championing James II
. His early death made him indelibly... |
Textual Production | Anne Finch | AF
marked the death of Mary of Modena
(widow of James II
), her former employer, with an elegy rntitled On the Death of the Queen. Mary died on 26 April/7 May (of which... |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | In the last decade of her life, JP
published another twelve historical novels under this name: a thirteenth appeared in the year of her death, 1993. Some of these novels revisit ground or people covered... |
Textual Production | Elinor James | EJ
responded to published comment on James II
's Declaration of Indulgence with Mrs. James's Vindication of the Church of England. The English Short Title Catalogue records two versions of this, only one of... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Polwhele | EP
may have written a poem addressed to the Duke of York (the future James II
) a year or more after The Frolicks. It must have circulated in manuscript, since it was collected... |
Textual Production | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | Some time after January 1817 SSW
published, with her name, a chapbook version of Jane Porter
's The Pastor's Fire-Side. She used a much extended, highly descriptive title: The Pastor's Fireside; or, Memoirs of... |
Textual Production | Anna Maria Porter | The title-page bears a quotation from a manuscript play. AMP
's To the Reader, dated at Esher in Surrey, April 1830, says she had written one volume of this book and planned the... |
Textual Production | Elinor James | EJ
began to address James II
probably early in his reign, in Most Dear Soveraign, I Cannot but Love and Admire You. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 137-8 The English Short Title Catalogue dates this [1689], but Paula McDowell |
Textual Production | Aphra Behn | 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... |
Textual Production | 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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Margaret Fell | Around January 1685 (she says both that she was in her seventieth year and that Charles II was very close to his death) she travelled again to London bearing a paper for the king which... |
Textual Features | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | Berry suggests that one last, undated letter to Halifax was probably written in early 1681. This letter contains commentary on the political influence the Duke of York
might hold, despite earlier information having suggested that... |
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