Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, pp. 1-124.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Blackburn | Another ancestor on her mother's side was Thomas Coventry
(1578-1640), Lord Keeper, who was Chancellor during the reign of Charles I
. He got into his possession the shirt worn by the monarch at his... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Sutcliffe | Among his successive positions at court, John Sutcliffe was squire to James I
. He described himself (or perhaps an older namesake) in 1627 as an ancient servant of the Duke of Buckingham
, husband... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Delaval | Her mother, Lady Livingston (born Lady Catherine Howard
, eldest among the large family of the second Earl of Suffolk), had made a clandestine marriage with George Stuart, Seigneur D'Aubigny
, who was killed in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ellis Cornelia Knight | ECK
's father, Sir Joseph Knight
, was a Rear-Admiral of the White squadron. He entered the Royal Navy
at the age of fourteen, needing a profession since his family had lost a considerable amount... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Wharton | AW
's mother, born Anne Danvers
, was heiress to a large fortune from a dead brother, though her father's estates were forfeit because he had signed Charles I
's death-warrant. Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, pp. 1-124. 6-7 |
Fictionalization | Ephelia | In 2007 Cheryl Sawyer
, in a historical novel entitled The Winter Prince, presented a triangular relationship between the happily-married Duchess of Richmond (already a poet, identified as the future Ephelia), her husband
... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Joan Whitrow | This offers praise to God for the king's safe return from waging war in Holland, but deplores the money spent in official welcome celebrations, which would have been better given to the poor. By... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Eleanor Douglas | In the same year, in the poem To Sion most Belov'd I Sing, she compared Charles I
to King Belshazzar in her favourite book of Daniel, whose feast was interrupted by the divine... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Eleanor Douglas | This two-part allegorical tract or prophecy, To the High Court (which repeats almost exactly a title LED
had used in 1641) and Samsons Legacie, makes Charles I
and Henrietta Maria
modern avatars of the... |
Leisure and Society | Ephelia | From an early age, the personal beauty of Lady Mary Villiers and her prominence at court ensured that she was painted many times: by Van Dyck
(especially), John Michael Wright
, and possibly Lely
... |
Literary responses | Mary Ferrar | The hold exerted on T. S. Eliot
's imagination by Little Gidding seems to have been produced by the idea of the community, not by their texts. His poem Little Gidding gives little hint that... |
Literary Setting | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The title-page bears a quotation from Shakespeare
; the dedication argues that the rebel Monmouth was wrong but deserving of pity. The story traces the fate of a family named Bruce; it opens with a... |
Literary Setting | Charlotte Charke | The Mercer is the tale of William Dennis in the reign of Charles I
, who marries money and becomes a silk mercer in London's Cheapside, but who then ruins his own wealth and... |
Literary Setting | Caryl Churchill | The play takes place in the period immediately following Charles I
's defeat by Cromwell
, when for a short time . . . anything seemed possible. Churchill, Caryl. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire. Pluto Press. prelims |
Literary Setting | Cassandra Cooke | The novel opens [t]owards the end of Oliver Cromwell
's usurpation, Cooke, Cassandra. Battleridge. C. Cawthorn. 1: 1 |
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