Pulter, Lady Hester. Poems, Emblems, and The Unfortunate Florinda. Editor Eardley, Alice, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies .
48ff, 58ff
King Charles I
Standard Name: Charles I, King
Used Form: King Charles the First
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Textual Features | Emma Robinson | The story is set during the English Civil War, so the Birmingham that it depicts is a pre-industrial country town, yet the character Tubal Bromycham, descendant of the lords of the manor of Birmingham in... |
| Textual Features | Lady Eleanor Douglas | This work anagramatises Eleanor Audelie as Reveale O Daniel and Eleanor Davies as A Snare O Devil. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 1, 6 |
| Textual Features | Katherine Chidley | Against a background of Charles I
's continuing war against Scotland (despite the signing of the Solemn League and Covenant in September 1643) in the attempt to impose Episcopacy in place of Presbyterianism, KC
argues... |
| Textual Features | Ethel Sidgwick | Hatchways is one of ES
's more humorous novels, since much is made of a foreign visitor's response to English culture and his desire to know more about what he takes to be its representatives.... |
| Textual Features | Sarah, Lady Piers | But she moves on from celebration to warning: the human race is fallen, and a ruler needs to guard against ambition (This second Paradise, oh hazard not), Sarah, Lady Piers,. George for Britain. A Poem. Bernard Lintott. 12 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Diana Primrose | DP
's continuing admiration for and loyalty to Elizabeth (like that of Anne Bradstreet
a few years later) seems to reflect proto-feminist attitudes; but it may be angled chiefly at the current political situation: in... |
| Textual Features | Anne Docwra | In her effort to enlighten those whose job it was to apply legal sanctions against Dissenters in Cambridge, AD
calls, in effect, for reform of local government. She appeals to history (the Civil War, still... |
| 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... |
| Reception | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
's Amsterdam publications (one of which was believed to threaten the king
's life) were publicly burned. Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press. 64-6 |
| Reception | Lady Eleanor Douglas | The burning was ordered by Archbishop Laud
and the Court of High Commission
, in spite of support for LED
from Charles I
's sister, Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia
. LED
was sentenced to imprisonment... |
| 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... |
Timeline
June to 11 November 1647: Charles I was held captive in his palace...
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June to 11 November 1647
5 June 1647: Soldiers of the Parliamentary army took an...
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5 June 1647
Soldiers of the Parliamentary army took an engagement not to disband; using the captive king
as hostage, they began issuing manifestoes calling for army reform and army rule.
6 August 1647: Cromwell's New Model Army marched on London...
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6 August 1647
March 1648: This month saw the outbreak of the conflict...
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March 1648
This month saw the outbreak of the conflict variously known as the Second Civil War or the War Between the Three Kingdoms, which ended only with the death of the king
.
27 January 1649: Ann or Anne Fairfax (wife of the former parliamentary...
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27 January 1649
Ann or Anne Fairfax
(wife of the former parliamentary commander Sir Thomas Fairfax
) made her second verbal intervention in the trial of Charles I
.
30 January 1649: Charles I, called to trial on 19 January...
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30 January 1649
Charles I
, called to trial on 19 January and sentenced on 27 January, was executed. A Commonwealth was declared; but to many the king became a martyr.
13 February 1649: Following the king's execution, Milton published...
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13 February 1649
Following the king
's execution, Milton
published The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, a pamphlet designed to enforce the general point that a tyrant may be lawfully got rid of.
Between 14 and 17 October 1660: A group of those associated with the execution...
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Between 14 and 17 October 1660
A group of those associated with the execution of Charles I
(several of the almost sixty Regicides who in various official capacities had signed his death-warrant, and others) were executed by hanging.
30 January 1661: On the anniversary of Charles I's execution,...
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30 January 1661
On the anniversary of Charles I
's execution, the bodies of Cromwell
and some close associates were draged out of their superbe tombs in Westminster Abbey.
7 December 1666: More than a hundred Covenanters were found...
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7 December 1666
More than a hundred Covenanters
were found guilty of rebellion and sentenced to be hanged with particular brutality from the Mercat Cross in Edinburgh.
By November 1754: David Hume published at Edinburgh the first...
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By November 1754
David Hume
published at Edinburgh the first volume of his History of Great Britain (called in most later editions The History of England).
Between March 1844 and August 1845: The hugely prolific Alexandre Dumas published...
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Between March 1844 and August 1845
The hugely prolific Alexandre Dumas
published not only his best-known novel, The Three Musketeers, but also The Count of Monte-Cristo, Twenty Years After, and La Reine Margot.
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