Oliver Cromwell

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 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...

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...

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...

This satirical eulogy uses the method of line-by-line contradiction of Waller 's poem in the manner used by Lady Mary Wroth in Railing Rimes Returned upon the Author about thirty years before. It skewers Cromwell

The first poem in the volume, The Wreath of Fame, comments on her own daring in aiming for this wreath. Her other topics are the rage of Napoleon (the Man of Slaughter)...

While Oliver Cromwell and his son ruled England, SH 's husband spent a good deal of time abroad (at Bruges, Rotterdam, Antwerp, and Paris). It is not clear whether his wife accompanied him.

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