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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elinor James | She boosts the Church of England
, of course, but also urges William not to assume the throne, but to withdraw, limiting his own contribution to bringing pressure to bear on James II
(his father... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Halkett | AH
handles her narrative (which survives only up to the year 1656) with skill. She employs literary reference when the ups and downs of her personal value at court put her in mind of texts... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ephelia | The broadside advises Monmouth
, the Protestant claimant to succeed to the throne, in no uncertain terms to remember his illegitimate birth, re-awaken his loyalty, to scorn the mob, and to realise that the only... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catharine Macaulay | CM
sought to memorialise the men whose struggles had secured the reputation of England as a nation of liberty at the time of the Civil War, while believing that oppression in England had begun when... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | MAS
pruned and updated the text (in its original form of a letter more than a hundred pages long addressed to My Reverend Mother on Christmas Eve, 1667—that is, to Agnès Artaud
). Schimmelpenninck felt... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catharine Macaulay | This volume deals with the reign of James II
, closing in 1689. CM
concluded with a direct appeal to the ingenuous [that is, sincere] and uncorrupted part of my countrymen to condemn tyrants and... |
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