Queen Mary II

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.

JW followed her recent address to King William with To Queen Mary : the Humble Salutation, and Faithful Greeting of the Widow Whitrowe.

JW addressed a New Year message to both the joint monarchs: To King William and Queen Mary , Grace and Peace, The Widow Whitrow's Humble Thanksgiving to the Lord.

Having apparently been a critic of the Stuart regime on moral and religious grounds, JW was disgusted when the Protestant William and Mary failed to institute reform. O Ye Church and People of England! what...

Opening dramatically—Say unto them: Thus saith the Lord. . . . This was the word of the Lord to me—she says the message came from God at about 4 a.m. on...

Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland (the latter, as usual, not credited on the title page) turned to a more esoteric subject in their The Lives of the Seven Bishops Committed to the Tower in 1688...

William and Mary vindicated the memory of LRR 's husband by reversing the attainder on him, six years after he was executed.

It gathered together published and unpublished work (some written at boarding-school) both religious and secular: hymns, epistles, odes, pastorals (including an imitation of Anne Killigrew and an elegy for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

The other novels in the series are The Three Crowns (1965), about William of Orange ; The Haunted Sisters (1966), about Mary , who marries William and reigns jointly with him in England, and Anne

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...

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...

She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho , the patriotic heroism...

She dedicated it To all Ingenious and Vertuous Ladies, more especially to her Highness the Lady Mary , the future queen. Such ladies by this time included BM 's ex-pupils as well as prospective...

The story revolves around Jacobite plots and persecution of Quakers in the period when Queen Mary II was Regent for her husband, William , during his absences abroad. It introduces actual characters like the former...

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...