King Charles I

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

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Textual Production Hannah Mary Rathbone
The full title is So Much of the Diary of Lady Willoughby as Relates to Her Domestic History, and the Eventful Period of the Reign of Charles the First.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
This book was one of...
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, 1995.
293ff
Textual Production Lady Hester Pulter
LHP composed the earliest poems in her volume tied to a date more specific than a year: the imprisonment of Charles I at Holmby House in Northamptonshire.
Pulter, Lady Hester. Poems, Emblems, and The Unfortunate Florinda. Editor Eardley, Alice, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies , 2014.
48ff, 58ff
Textual Production Roma White
RW published a historical novel set in Lancashire during the reign of Charles I and titled The Changeling of Brandlesome.
Dated from the Bodleian Library date stamp.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
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 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, 1992.
26, 33
CM is perhaps surprisingly respectful of Charles I's personal virtues; yet...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Maria De Fleury
Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...
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 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 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 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 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...
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...
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, 1988.
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