Athenæum. J. Lection.
927(1845): 763
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Textual Production | Bathsua Makin | BM
wrote elegies on the deaths of two children of Lady Huntingdon
. Her Latin elegy for Henry, Lord Hastings
(grandson of Lady Eleanor Douglas
, who died on 24 June 1649), was never printed... |
Textual Production | Emma Robinson | ER
anonymously published Whitehall; or, The Days of Charles I, the second of her historical novels. Athenæum. J. Lection. 927(1845): 763 |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
commemorated the fatal anniversary of Charles I
's execution in The Bill of Excommunication. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 293ff |
Textual Production | Hester Shaw | Sixty midwives participated in this action, though it is not known who wrote the petition. It was presented to the king
, the College of Physicians
, and the Archbishop of Canterbury
. |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Carola Oman | Oman relates her subject's public engagements as an infant (attending her mother's coronation, sprinkling holy water on her father's corpse); her departure from her native country, with absolutely no knowledge of the English language, to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katherine Philips | KP
's poems range over every degree of a scale reaching from expressions of intense personal feeling to formal comment on public affairs. She wrote on the execution of Charles I
, the Restoration of... |
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 Cary, Viscountess Falkland | Edward II is a generically complex work: a history composed largely of dramatic speeches, in prose which verges on blank verse. This monarch was famous or infamous for entertaining favourites (particularly Piers Gaveston
) with... |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Cary | Here MC
urges the Saints to take up arms against their oppressors (Charles I
is damagingly identified with the little horn of the beast in Revelations), and foresees an early fulfilment of the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Hester Pulter | As science, religion, and mythology meet in these poems, so do the public-political and the personal. Elegies lament both the violent deaths of royalist leaders Sir Charles Lucas
(elder brother of the poet Margaret Cavendish |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | |
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... |
Violence | Margaret Cavendish | Margaret and her mother and sisters spent several days in Colchester jail for protection. Soon afterwards they moved to Oxford, where Charles I
had fled with his court. Jones, Kathleen. A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Bloomsbury. 21 |
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