Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates.
2: 452-3, 465-6
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Textual Features | Roma White | RW
returns here to a period close to that of her first historical novel (published more than fifty years earlier) and to the actual Greenhalgh family. But whereas the earlier book began some years before... |
Residence | Mary Ward | She had already sought the patronage of Henrietta Maria
, and on the whole she was remarkably little harrassed by government agents for Catholicism. Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates. 2: 452-3, 465-6 |
Education | Alice Sutcliffe | Her parents apparently sent the adolescent Alice for social education in the household of Katherine Villiers, duchess of Buckingham
, who was only seventeen when she married in June 1620. The duchess (whom, with her... |
Travel | Agnes Strickland | They found plenty to criticise as well as to admire in France. On the track of three Stuart consorts, Henrietta Maria
, Catherine of Braganza
, and Mary of Modena
, they visited Paris and... |
Travel | Elizabeth Strickland | ES
had no reluctance, however, about accompanying Agnes on research trips. The two sisters set out on 3 April 1844, by way of Le Havre and Rouen to visit places around Paris associated with Henrietta Maria |
Publishing | Emma Robinson | |
Occupation | Elizabeth Richardson | As Lady Asburnham, the future ER
frequented the Court. In 1627 she was spending some time with Queen Henrietta Maria
, who had arrived in England two years before this. She was said to have... |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | In the last decade of her life, JP
published another twelve historical novels under this name: a thirteenth appeared in the year of her death, 1993. Some of these novels revisit ground or people covered... |
Textual Production | Carola Oman | CO
published her historical biography Henrietta Maria: it opens dramatically, its first chapter relating the murder of the baby Henriette-Marie's father, Henri IV
, by François Ravaillac
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne-Thérèse de Lambert | The Author's Preface to Réflexions begins disarmingly with the writer following her rambling thoughts, but shifts to a muted challenge when she declares herself offended to see Men so blind to their own interest, as... |
Textual Production | Mary Fage | |
Textual Production | Eugenia | Scholar Maureen E. Mulvihill
, on her website, reproduces the elaborate title-page of Edward Reynolds
's 1642 address to Queen Henrietta Maria
by this name, Eugenia's Teares for great Brittaynes Distractions, and suggests a... |
Employer | Ephelia | She was by all accounts an outstanding courtier, admired not only for her beauty but also for her style and wit (Freda Hast
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography quotes the word for... |
Residence | Ephelia | Mary, Duchess of Richmond, left England for France in October 1667, two years after her employer, Henrietta Maria
, and remained there until after the queen's death in August 1669, though she frequently visited London... |
Publishing | Ephelia | The initial letter H (Hail Mighty Prince!) in the 1679 reprint is rendered by a woodcut ornament or factotum with portraits of two crowned figures, one of each sex, with the royal rose... |
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