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death | Christopher Marlowe | Standard accounts of his death used to say that it was a brawl, largely caused by himself. But accident seems unlikely. He had recently been brought in for questioning by the Privy Council
, but... |
Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
developed important ties in Canada. Her personal influence was acknowledged by every one of the famous five (Emily Murphy
, Henrietta Muir Edwards
, Louise McKinney
, Irene Parlby
, and Nellie McClung |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Green | This was the prophetRichard Brothers
, millenarian and British Israelite
, a man of talent and eccentricity who already had a colourful career behind him. She was forced to evict him when he failed... |
Health | Queen Elizabeth I | QEI
suffered an attack of smallpox which she barely survived. The question of the succession loomed, and Burghley
actually wrote a memo instructing the Privy Council
, in the event of her death, to appoint... |
Occupation | Philip Dormer Stanhope fourth Earl of Chesterfield | From the age of twenty he held a positon at Court and a seat in Parliament
. After becoming an earl he served in the Privy Council
and as British ambassador at The Hague... |
politics | Queen Elizabeth I | With the help of William Cecil
, QEI
acted swiftly and decisively to establish her regime by appointing a new, slimmer, less ecclesiastical Privy Council
. England and its monarch were both in weak positions... |
politics | Lady Rachel Russell | LRR
's husband
was accused of High Treason before the Privy Council
and sent to the Tower of London. Schwoerer, Lois. Lady Rachel Russell: "One of the Best of Women". Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. 103 |
Reception | Elizabeth Cellier | EC
was imprisoned in Newgate
to await trial at the Old Bailey
criminal court for her publication (which Jacob Tonson
, reporting this, called a Libell upon the whole Government. At the same time, by... |
Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | QEI
wrote a letter to a member of her Privy Council
and another civil servant, to authorise the use of torture in extracting intelligence from suspected plotters. Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press, 2000. 127 |
Textual Production | Anne Whitehead | They both set their names on the title-page, but Elson is said inside to be the author of one short passage only. Their fuller title was An Epistle for True Love, Unity, and Order in... |
Textual Production | Queen Victoria | Victoria's first publication was Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands. The idea for publishing selections from her journal arose when the queen showed editor Arthur Helps
extracts of the memoirs... |
Textual Production | Sarah Green | SG
had dreams after the departure of Brothers (who had apparently lodged with her), which identified him as Christ or John the Baptist. She claims she was personally pressured by members of the Privy Council |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Cellier | The printing of EC
's famous pamphlet, Malice Defeated, her account of the false accusation laid against her in the Meal Tub Plot, was halted by the Privy Council
. Gardiner, Anne Barbeau, and Elizabeth Cellier. “Introduction”. Malice Defeated and The Matchless Rogue, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1988, p. iii - xiv. vii-viii |
Travel | Elizabeth Bathurst | EB
went on a preaching journey to Bristolin the time of the hottest Persecution [of Quakers] there Bathurst, Elizabeth. Truth Vindicated. T. Sowle, 1691. av Bristol was the base of... |
Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Clinton Countess of Lincoln | After a dozen years of marriage, however, her parents-in-law were being pressed by the Privy Council
(at the behest of Queen Elizabeth
) to provide suitable accommodation for the young couple and their growing family. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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