Oliver Cromwell

The tiny nuggets of information (often only a sentence or two) dispensed under Ideals, places, people, institutions, and (in the case of Ireland) Wrongs, Tenacity of Memory, and Oliver Cromwell, are rather...

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

His later biographies include Sir Walter Scott, 1932, and Oliver Cromwell, 1934. His later essay collections include A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys, 1922 (which relates among other things the story...

She named three dedicatees of this volume, all eminent anti-monarchical women: Elizabeth Cromwell (wife of Oliver ), Bridget Ireton (Elizabeth's daughter, and wife of Henry Ireton ), and Margaret Rolle (wife of Henry Rolle )...

She later said that the resurrection in question was connected with the formation of Cromwell 's New Model Army in April 1645. This work is available via Early English Books Online, together with the...

Though the poem, in heroic couplets, turns at the end to praise of virtue, its notion of indolence is more positive than that of James Thomson in The Castle of Indolence, 1748. In leisurely...

The play takes place in the period immediately following Charles I 's defeat by Cromwell , when for a short time . . . anything seemed possible. Critics have recognised Churchill's debt to Christopher Hill

AC writes in many different metres (some unusual, a few somewhat uncertainly used). In a prose address to the Christian Reader she says she has achieved a peacefull temper and spirituall calmnesse. Her...

Her mother, born Bridget Claypoole or Claypole , was the only child of two second marriages: her father had formerly been married to one of Oliver Cromwell 's daughters.

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...

LED addressed Oliver Cromwell in The Excommunication out of Paradice.

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...

A notebook surviving from GE 's schooldays contains (besides such items as poems copied from annuals) an essay on Affectation and Conceit, which sketches the character of a vain woman in a tone of...

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.

MF wrote her first two letters to Cromwell ; she followed them with a third and fourth in 1656 and 1657.