Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 3-7.
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Literary Setting | Ouida | The title piece is set during the Glorious Revolution and begins just before James II
is forced from the throne by William of Orange
. The story's characters naturally take the romantic side: as Jacobites... |
Literary Setting | Mary Boyle | MB
here recounts the story, set during the final days of James II
's reign, of Mary Savile, a fictional maid of honour toMary of Modena
, James's wife (whose actual maids of honour... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Cellier | EC
was evidently consulted in her capacity as a midwife by James II
on the failure of his wife, Mary of Modena
, to bear a child. Cellier said the queen was fertile, and advised... |
Occupation | Anne Halkett | The widowed AH
began teaching for a living (not girls, but boys of good family) until James II
granted her a pension in recognition of her former services. Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 3-7. 7 |
Occupation | Anne Killigrew | AK
also became a noted amateur painter. There are records of her portrait, religious, and mythological works; she also produced more than one self-portrait. The present royal collection includes her portrait of James II
.... |
Occupation | Anne Finch | Anne Kingsmill (later AF
) became a maid of honour to Mary of Modena
, wife of the future James II
. McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press. 20-1 |
politics | Jane Barker | If, as Kathryn King
believes, Barker sent the evidence of her miraculous cure in 1730 to the mother superior who was formerly Lady Lucy, she did so as part of a concerted campaign to get... |
politics | Elizabeth Delaval | A warrant went out for the arrest of Lady Elizabeth Hatcher (the former ED
) as a Jacobite: for helping to convey letters between the exiled James II
and his supporters in England, in an... |
politics | Margaret Fell | In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. 87 |
politics | Margaret Fell | Following the death of Charles II, when MF
had just spoken with him (fruitlessly) about a decade after their previous meeting, she had an interview with James II
in February 1685; she later sent an... |
politics | Hester Biddle | By this stage in her life she had been imprisoned fourteen times over a period of fifty years. The Society of Friends
gave her permission for her journey. Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press. 389 |
politics | Lady Lucy Herbert | LLH
, like her parents, was a Jacobite and an activist in the cause. She looked on James Edward Stuart
as James III, rightful king of England and Scotland, and must have been delighted when... |
politics | Elizabeth Walker | In 1685, perhaps in connection with the death of Charles II
and the succession of the openly Catholic James II
, Anthony Walkersuffered some form of persecution for ten days and seems to have... |
politics | Susanna Hopton | |
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... |
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