Churchill, Caryl. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire. Pluto Press.
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King Charles I
Standard Name: Charles I, King
Used Form: King Charles the First
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|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Literary Setting | Cassandra Cooke | The novel opens [t]owards the end of Oliver Cromwell
's usurpation, Cooke, Cassandra. Battleridge. C. Cawthorn. 1: 1 |
| Literary Setting | Anna Eliza Bray | The book is set in the English countryside at the estate of Warleigh in Devon during the reign of Charles I
. Bray, Anna Eliza. The Novels and Romances of Anna Eliza Bray. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1: xxiii-xxiv Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
| Literary Setting | Anna Eliza Bray | Like Warleigh, the novel is again set during the reign of Charles I
, and incorporates folklore and legends from Devon and Cornwall. Bray, Anna Eliza. The Novels and Romances of Anna Eliza Bray. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1: xl Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
| 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... |
| 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
... |
| 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... |
| 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
... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Hester Pulter | Hester's father, James Ley
, was a lawyer (in time a judge) who sat for many years as Member of Parliament for Westbury (under Queen Elizabeth, James I and Charles I). At the time of... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Jane Cavendish | The then Earl of Newcastle
offered hospitality at Welbeck to Charles I
on his journey north to be crowned King of Scotland: probably the first taste of court life for the children Lady Jane
and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Mary Wroth | It seems that LMW
's illegitimate son had received from Charles Ia brave livinge in Ireland. Roberts, Josephine A., and Lady Mary Wroth. “Introduction and Notes”. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, Louisiana State University Press, pp. 3 - 75, 219. 25 |
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