Oliver Cromwell

JW 's ancestor Henry Williams of Ysgafell in Montgomeryshire was a Baptist preacher and a member of the Welsh puritan Vavasor Powell 's Independent Church. In 1655 he signed Powell's Word for God, a...

At some date during the English Civil War, Cromwell 's army laid waste the parish church of Woodbridge.

It proclaims: this is the story of two people // this is the story of two peoples // and one God / your God or mine? In tracing the story to before the Act...

Her range of reference is wide: Milton , Cromwell , Virginia Woolf , Joan Baez , fairy tales, the Bible, and settings (as her publisher puts it) from Jerusalem to Hollywood, cafes to graveyards.

She recommends the study of history, and her moral exhortation leans heavily on anecdotal, historical examples. (She also uses quotations from her own unpublished tragedy.) She cites Queen Elizabeth (among many others) as a...

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...

Before the printing of AT 's vain prophecies (as he saw them), Marchamont Needham wrote to Cromwell , saying they were desperate against your person, family, children, friends and the government, and mentioning...

The title-page leaves no doubt of the political implications of her message. It reads Strange and Wonderful Newes from White-Hall; or, The Mighty Visions Proceeding from Mistris Anna Trapnel, to divers Collonels, Ladies, and Gentlewomen...

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 .

Sutcliff called it an outside job, written in response to a complaint by her mother (a strong admirer of Oliver Cromwell ) about all the fictional representations of handsome, charming Cavaliers and boorish, unmannerly...

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.

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...

MR writes as a friend to the Revolution, but enters with strong emotion into the personal situation of the queen as the victim of scandal and prejudice. She cites Elizabeth I and Cromwell as examples...

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. The work gives evidence of painstaking research into the two...

Though KOB 's surname was an ancient name of a royal house in Ireland, she was born into an often-forgotten segment of nineteenth-century society: the Irish Catholic middle class. She calls her Irishness my accidental...