Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
31 (1771): 275
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Textual Production | Catharine Macaulay | CM
published volume five of her History of England through Edward and Charles Dilly
, with a subtitle that reads From the Death of Charles I
to the Restoration of Charles II
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 31 (1771): 275 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catharine Macaulay | Volumes three and four cover the period of the Civil War, culminating in this volume with the execution of Charles I
. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 26, 33 |
Textual Production | Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette | This claims to be not a novel, but actual memoirs, said to be dictated by their protagonist. Henriette d'Angleterre was the name given to Henrietta Anne Stuart, daughter of the executed Charles I of England |
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... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elinor James | EJ
here brings together her unfailing concern for the Church of England
with homage to Elizabeth
, who presided over the church's infancy. She also defends the memory of Charles I
, with a threatening... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Isham | EI
begins with a notation about a time too early for her to remember it: criing quiet at Nurs and sleeping much froward after. It seems in the absence of punctuation, that she is passing... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Isham | Besides her life-writings, EI
left papers dealing with two principal topics: the practice of herbal medicine and the practice of religion, expressed in penitential devotions. The medical manuscripts are now Northamptonshire Record Office
IC4823, 4824... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lucy Hutchinson | In the Civil War John Hutchinson
(commissioned a colonel in January 1643) became commander of the parliamentary forces in Nottinghamshire, and of the stronghold of Nottingham Castle. In 1646 he became Member of... |
politics | Lucy Hutchinson | |
politics | Lucy Hutchinson | As a member of the Council of State (instituted after the king
's death as chief executive body) John Hutchinson
found himself with power over his old opposites and enemies of . . . the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Halkett | AH
's father, Thomas Murray
, Provost of Eton
and Preceptor to the future Charles I
, died in April 1623, when she was three months old. 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. 5 Halkett, Anne et al. “The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis and John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 9-87. 9 |
politics | Anne Halkett | She had his measurements taken and got a petticoat and a woman's waistcoat made for him (the tailor expressed astonishment at the measurements). She took him in her arms at meeting, dressed him, provided him... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Halkett | Their wedding, if it occurred, must have come between the execution of Charles I
and the last illness of Anne's brother Will. After this, Loftis believes, Bampfield heard that his wife was after all still... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Finch | AF
's poetry often combines the personal and the political. A Contemplation reads like a synthesis of her political and religious beliefs. She looks to Christ to compensate for earthly sorrows, and makes of her... |
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