Cellier, Elizabeth. A Scheme for a Corporation of Midwives.
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politics | Susanna Wesley | Her timing may have had to do with the death of the former James II
on 3 September 1701, though she had apparently been praying for William III during his reign so far. During the... |
politics | Anne Halkett | Anne Murray (later AH
) became involved in monarchist plotting, with the spy and double agent Colonel Joseph Bampfield
. This led to her engineering the escape from England of the future James II
... |
politics | Elizabeth Cellier | The king
promised EC
, she said, what she had asked for in print: a Corporation of Midwives and a Cradle Hospital
. Cellier, Elizabeth. A Scheme for a Corporation of Midwives. 7 |
politics | Joan Whitrow | |
politics | Anne Halkett | Anne Murray (later AH
) crossed the threshold of national history when she smuggled the young Duke of York (the future James II
), disguised in women's clothes, out of St James's Palace on the... |
politics | Elinor James | EJ
actively exerted an influence on the course of national affairs. She was a radical traditionalist, monarchist, and Jacobite who was critical of all the Stuart monarchs before Queen Anne
, and a high-flying Anglican... |
Publishing | Anne Halkett | In this year there reached print at Edinburgh, together with three works by AH
, a printed version of her memoirs, radically recast by S. C. (who was probably Simon Couper
, one of... |
Publishing | Jane Porter | The publisher, Longman
, had advertised this work as in the press in a flyer printed in April 1814 (bound into a copy of Modern Times by Eliza Parsons
, 1814). Within a couple of... |
Publishing | Jane Barker | Most of her extant manuscripts are at the British Library
and at Magdalen College
, Oxford. Just a few which are more widely scattered (one among the family papers of Jacobite diarist Mary Caesar |
Publishing | Barbara Blaugdone | |
Publishing | Elizabeth Cellier | Lady Powis
, governess to the infant Prince of Wales
, brought the baby to the king
with Elizabeth Cellier
's Foundling Hospital petition in his hand. Lady Powis was author of a broadside Ballad... |
Reception | Aphra Behn | The Rover brought AB
to the notice of the Duke of York
. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press. 221 |
Residence | Jane Barker | JB
left London, following the ousted King James
, to settle at his court-in-exile at St-Germain-en-Laye near Paris. King, Kathryn R., and Jeslyn Medoff. “Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 21 , No. 3, pp. 16-38. 22 |
Residence | John Locke | Locke spent the latter part of the 1670s in France, and then, for the last couple of years of Charles II
's reign and for the whole of that of James II
, lived... |
Residence | Lady Lucy Herbert | When James II
fled from his kingdom at the end of 1688, LLH
's parents accompanied him into France to his court at St Germain. They sent for her at some time over the... |
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