Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
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Harold King of the English
Standard Name: Harold,, King of the English
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| Textual Features | Maureen Duffy | While the present-day plot produces a series of surreal confrontations, it is punctuated by a string of glimpses into the past. These begin when Swanscombe Man (the prehistoric human whose bones are the earliest evidence... |
| Textual Features | Ann Yearsley | The topic of this tragedy—the political resistance of Godwin
and his family against the supposedly effete, priest-ridden, and Frenchified government of Edward the Confessor
, Godwin, father of... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ann Hawkshaw | The sonnets begin with the arrival of human beings on the lands that became Great Britain and wend their way through history, moving through treatments of the English kings including Alfred the Great
and Ethelred the Unready |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Manning | In these medieval stories characters reveal themselves and their motives in speeches or dramatic monologues (a method of history writing—practised from antiquity, and used in English by, for instance, Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
—which may... |
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25 December 1066: William of Normandy assumed the throne of...
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25 December 1066
William of Normandy
assumed the throne of England after the death of Edward the Confessor
, and after defeating Harold
at the Battle of Hastings in Sussex.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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