Churchill, Caryl. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire. Pluto Press.
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Textual Features | Theodora Benson | 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... |
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 |
Textual Production | John Buchan | 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... |
Dedications | Mary Cary | 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
)... |
Textual Production | Mary Cary | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothea Celesia | 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... |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | An Collins | AC
writes in many different metres (some unusual, a few somewhat uncertainly used). In a prose address to the Christian Reader Collins, An. Divine Songs and Meditacions. Editor Stewart, Stanley N., William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. 1 Collins, An. Divine Songs and Meditacions. Editor Stewart, Stanley N., William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. 2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Cooper | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under John Claypole |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
addressed Oliver Cromwell
in The Excommunication out of Paradice. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 225-6 |
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... |
Textual Production | George Eliot | 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... |
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 Production | Margaret Fell | MF
wrote her first two letters to Cromwell
; she followed them with a third and fourth in 1656 and 1657. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. xi |
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