Oliver Cromwell

EL moved from Lincoln to Eastbourne in 1884 with her sister and her brother-in-law the Rev. Hampden Jameson . Their house in College Road, Eastbourne, was a picturesque gabled, red-tiled house, covered with...

Quotations about sympathy on the title-page come from George Henry Lewes (in his life of Goethe) and from Arnold Toynbee . EL 's earliest heroine, then Espérance de Mabillon, makes a cameo appearance with her...

Volumes three and four cover the period of the Civil War, culminating in this volume with the execution of Charles I .CM is perhaps surprisingly respectful of Charles I's personal virtues; yet...

In a history largely dedicated to exposing the shortcomings in British monarchical government, the volume on the Interregnum held a key position. CM clearly expressed her judicial though not unmixed personal admiration of Cromwell ...

There were two fairly prominent contemporary Major families. One, living in Hampshire, included Dorothy Major, who married a son of Oliver Cromwell . The other lived in Blackfriars Road, London.

Joseph Caryl , the Cromwell government's official censor and perhaps EM 's minister, added a commendatory note to his licence to signify his approval of her views. Among her few modern critics, Patricia Demers has...

Her mother, born Damaris Cradock, was a widow with several children from her first marriage (three sons and a daughter—who was also, confusingly, called Damaris) when she married DM 's father. From her second marriage...

From August 1823 MRM was planning a grand historical tragedy on the greatest subject in English story—Charles and Cromwell. She noted Cromwell 's domestic virtues and thought of him as a man acting...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 .