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King James II
Standard Name: James II, King
Used Form: Duke of York
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Residence | Elizabeth Burnet | During the reign of James II
, Elizabeth Berkeley and her husband lived abroad at her persuasion, near the court of William of Orange
(the future William III of England) at The Hague in the... |
| 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. |
| Textual Features | Anna Maria Hall | This novel is set in France, England, and Ireland. The action occurs in the seventeenth century as a Huguenot girl escapes oppression in France by fleeing to England and then Ireland... |
| Textual Features | Isabella Neil Harwood | In the play Lord Russell is first seen as he hears the news that the King has dissolved the parliament: he has Quite broken with his people, and to govern / Must needs oppress them... |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Mary Pix | The fall of the Sultan Ibrahim is may suggest that of James II
, but he is deposed mainly for sexual depravity: he likes virgins, and his wicked mistress, Sheker Para, is eager to keep... |
| Textual Features | Elinor James | James's strong admonitory style has much in common with that of religious prophets. She is equally ready to cross swords with Quakers and Dissenters on the one hand and Catholics on the other, to venerate... |
| 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 Production | Aphra Behn | After James II
had fled the country in 1688, AB
received a flattering invitation from Gilbert Burnet
(who in 1682 had tried to divide her from Anne Wharton
on moral grounds) to welcome the new... |
| 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 | Grisell Murray | Based on the Marchmont Papers, this book criticised Fox's take on the reign of James II
. Rose stated that as a close friend of the third Earl of Marchmont
, he felt an obligation... |
| 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... |
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