King Charles I

Standard Name: Charles I, King
Used Form: King Charles the First

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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...
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...
politics Lady Jane Cavendish
Bolsover too surrendered to parliamentarians ten days after Welbeck. The parliamentary forces at Welbeck, under the command of Colonel Thornhaugh ,
Starr, Nathan Comfort. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Concealed Fansyes</span>: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley”. PMLA, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 805-36.
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are said by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography to have treated...
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.
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Residence Margaret Cavendish
The queen had left Oxford, pregnant, in April, attended on her first day's journey by her husband (whom she was never to see again) and her sons Charles and James. At Exeter she gave...
Occupation Lucy Cary
As a young woman at the court of Charles I , LC was known for fine dressing and jeering wit.
Latz, Dorothy L. "Glow-Worm Light": Writings of Seventeenth-Century English Recusant Women from Original Manuscripts. University of Salzburg.
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Her desire to become a nun was embarrassing for her mother, who was negotiating...
Education Mary Cary
Her works show clearly that she was not without education (which would have taken place as Charles I was becoming bitterly unpopular with nonconformist elements in society). Nevertheless, once into a propaganda career she was...
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...
Textual Features Mary Caesar
MC begins with a commemorative account of the dealings of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (First Lord of the Treasury under Queen Anne ), with her husband, Charles Caesar . It was news of...
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.
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Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
Like many of her previous works, it incorporates English forklore and legends.
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.
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Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
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...
Cultural formation Hester Biddle
Brought up an Anglican , she was initially disturbed at the King 's execution. In the bloody City of London she lived like the prodigal son after his riotous period had ended, feeding ....
Textual Production Mary Astell
This royalist manifesto, while making a show of interpreting the Whig Dr White Kennett 's sermon on 31 January (the anniversary of the death of Charles I ) as loyal praise of the Royal Martyr...
Wealth and Poverty Ann, Lady Fanshawe
The family of Ann Harrison (later ALF ) fell into comparative poverty, owing to her father's having lent the immense sum of £50,000 to the king in November 1640.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Preface, Introduction, Select Bibliography”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, p. v - xxi.
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Ann, Lady Fanshawe, et al. “The Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis and John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 101-92.
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