Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe.
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Textual Features | Anna Maria Hall | The novel is set in seventeenth-century England, during the time of Cromwell's protectorate. Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe. 145 Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. Hall, Anna Maria. The Buccaneer. R. Bentley. 66 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Textual Features | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | The story is set among the Puritans
under Oliver Cromwell
, and many of the characters bear names that convey the earnest desire of their parents that they should grow up to be rigidly virtuous. |
Textual Features | Hannah Mary Rathbone | Lady Willoughby
, the supposed author of the diary, was an actual person (born into the well-known Cecil family), who died in the year 1661. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Residence | Edna Lyall | EL
moved from Lincoln to Eastbourne in 1884 Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co. 53 |
Reception | Mary Ferrar | The community aroused mixed reactions in its own highly partisan and divided age. An anonymous pamphlet, The Arminian Nunnery, 1641, British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Publishing | Emma Robinson | It was reprinted in 1853, translated into French in 1857, and reprinted at Philadelphia without a date as Whitehall; or, The Days and Times of Oliver Cromwell. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
politics | John Dryden | This was work in keeping with his family's political position. Attending Westminster School only a stone's throw from a whole succession of exciting and disturbing national events must surely have awakened Dryden's historical and political... |
politics | Anna Trapnel | AT
, staying at an ordinary or tavern in Whitehall, London, for the trial of Vavasor Powell
, fell into an eleven-day, twelve-night trance in which she prophesied against Cromwell
. Powell, a Welshman... |
politics | Anna Trapnel | At this date, when religious rebirth was a political statement, AT
's conversion and her visions signified an interest in politics and a drive to concern herself, even obliquely, in shaping national events. After fasting... |
politics | Margaret Fell | In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. 87 |
politics | Hester Biddle | George Fox
later reported meeting HB
in the Strand in London in about 1657, at a time when Cromwell
was persecuting Quakers
. She told him of her plan to seek out the future Charles II |
politics | Lucy Hutchinson | |
Occupation | Anne Halkett | At Kinross, Anne Murray (later AH
) spent two days practising medicine. Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 3-7. 6 |
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. Churchill, Caryl. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire. Pluto Press. prelims |
Literary responses | Emma Robinson | The Athenæum's reviewer, Henry Fothergill Chorley
, wrote that after Mary Russell Mitford
's characterization of Cromwell
in her Charles the First, we know not who has conceived of the great General better... |
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