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Queen Mary II
Standard Name: Mary II, Queen
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Alicia D'Anvers | ADA
's first published work, A Poem upon His Sacred Majesty
, His Voyage to Holland, was licensed for publication; it appeared by January 1691, dedicated to Queen Mary
. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988. 376 |
Dedications | Bathsua Makin | She dedicated it To all Ingenious and Vertuous Ladies, more especially to her Highness the Lady Mary
, the future queen. Makin, Bathsua. An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen. Thomas Parkhurst, 1673. 3 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grisell Murray | After fleeing from the authorities, her father finally settled at Utrecht in the Netherlands, where he sent for his family. Lady Grisell expertly managed the household in the Netherlands, which became a meeting place... |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Osborne | DO
's sister-in-law Martha, Lady Giffard
, a historical writer and an early widow, lived permanently with the family. Sir William Temple employed the young Jonathan Swift
from 1689. DO
was a friend and correspondent... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | It gathered together published and unpublished work (some written at boarding-school) both religious and secular: hymns, epistles, odes, pastorals (including an imitation of Anne Killigrew
and an elegy for Queen Mary
), praise of King William |
Literary Setting | Edna Lyall | |
Occupation | Elizabeth Delaval | Lady Elizabeth Delaval
, who as a girl had been an attendant on Catherine of Braganza
, applied unsuccessfully to be appointed to wait on Mary, Princess of Orange
, the recently-married daughter of the future James II. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Joan Whitrow | |
politics | Lady Rachel Russell | |
politics | Susanna Hopton | |
politics | Hester Biddle | |
politics | Anne Finch | |
politics | Anne Finch | He was discharged for lack of evidence seven months later. He remained a Non-Juror: that is, he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the new monarchs, William and Mary, a refusal which would... |
politics | Joan Whitrow | After Queen Mary
died of smallpox, JW
was impelled by God to go from Putney, where she lived, to London proper, and call the people to fasting instead of feasting. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998. 160 |
Reception | Elinor James | Her offence was not only This Being Your Majesty
's Birth-Day (which she had written and printed as well as selling) but any of one of at least eight broadsides this year condemning William
and... |
Timeline
7 October 1660: News reached the British royal household...
National or international item
7 October 1660
News reached the British royal household of a marriage that was to become dynastically significant: that of the king
's brother (later James II
) with the commoner Anne Hyde
, daughter of Lord Clarendon
.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
411-12
15 February 1675: John Crowne's Calisto; or, The Chaste Nimph...
Building item
15 February 1675
John Crowne
's Calisto; or, The Chaste Nimph was performed at Court.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 228-9
23 October 1677: The marriage of the future monarchs William...
National or international item
23 October 1677
The marriage of the future monarchs William
and Marywas now declared.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
643
8 November 1688: William of Orange (husband of James II's...
National or international item
8 November 1688
William of Orange
(husband of James II
's elder daughter, Mary
) landed near Torbay in Devon with a view to gaining control of Britain.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
892-3
February 1689 to October 1791: The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between...
National or international item
February 1689 to October 1791
The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between supporters of the deposed James II
(who landed at Kinsale on 12 March 1689 with substantial French forces) and supporters of William of Orange
(who had assumed...
13 February 1689: James II having fled the kingdom the previous...
National or international item
13 February 1689
James II
having fled the kingdom the previous December, and his place been taken by his elder daughter and her husband, they assumed the throne jointly as King William III
and Queen Mary II
...
Probably 23 April 1689: Mr and Mrs Priest's girls' school in Chelsea...
Building item
Probably 23 April 1689
Mr
and Mrs Priest's girls' school in Chelsea put on the first (private) performance of Dido and Aeneas, by Henry Purcell
.
Campbell, Margaret. Henry Purcell, Glory of His Age. Oxford University Press, 1995.
130, 137, 146
Wharton, Philip, Duke of. The Poetical Works of Philip, late Duke of Wharton. Edmund Curll, 1731.
311
23 April was William
and Mary
's Coronation...
10 May 1689: William and Mary were crowned. Bishop Burnet...
National or international item
25 November 1689: The House of Commons accepted the final wording...
National or international item
25 November 1689
The House of Commons
accepted the final wording of the Revolution Settlement, or what became known as the Bill of Rights, the nearest thing to a British constitution.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Atkyns
28 December 1694: Queen Mary died of smallpox during a severe...
National or international item
28 December 1694
Queen Mary
died of smallpox during a severe epidemic, leaving her husband, William
, to reign alone.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
990
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
2: 1971
April 1698: Jeremy Collier published his Short View of...
Writing climate item
April 1698
Jeremy Collier
published his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, a book in heavy-handed pamphlet style with exaggerated typography.
Hume, Robert D. “Jeremy Collier and the Future of the London Theatre in 1698”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford, 3 Jan. 1998.
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