King James II

Standard Name: James II, King
Used Form: Duke of York

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Polwhele
This is a tribute in search of a patron: it praises James 's exploits in the Third Dutch War.
Milling, Jane. “’In the Female Coasts of Fame’: women’s dramatic writing on the public stage, 1669-71”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Maria De Fleury
Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...
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...
Violence Lady Lucy Herbert
A sectarian motive was assumed. Two page-boys were said to have died in the flames, and the family was lucky to get out alive. Permission to rebuild was granted by James II in June 1685...
Wealth and Poverty Anne Halkett
On his accession to the throne in 1685 James II granted AH a pension of a hundred pounds a year, in recognition of her personal contribution to saving his life in 1648.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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