Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Eleanor Douglas | This work anagramatises Eleanor Audelie as Reveale O Daniel and Eleanor Davies as A Snare O Devil. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 1, 6 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | Edward II is a generically complex work: a history composed largely of dramatic speeches, in prose which verges on blank verse. This monarch was famous or infamous for entertaining favourites (particularly Piers Gaveston
) with... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | Elizabeth Cary Falkland
composed both An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham, and a companion piece, an elegy on the duke. Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, pp. 1 - 59; various pages. 10 Wolfe, Heather, editor. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680. Palgrave Macmillan. 3 Akkerman, Nadine N. W. “’Reader, Stand Still and Look: Lo Here I Am’: Elizabeth Cary’s Funeral Elegy ’On the Duke of Buckingham’”. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, edited by Heather Wolfe, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 183-00. 183-4, 193-6 and n32 |
Textual Production | Catharine Macaulay | It was printed for the author, by J. Nourse
. CM
's primary publisher for the first four volumes was Thomas Cadell
. When she offered to sell him the entire copyright of the still... |
Reception | Lady Mary Wroth | |
Friends, Associates | John Dryden | Of these female disciples, Mary, Lady Chudleigh
, and the younger Elizabeth Thomas
enjoyed personal friendships with JD
. But his career was conspicuous for professional enmities as well as friendships. His feud with Thomas Shadwell |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ephelia | Lady Mary's father, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
, politician and art collector, was well-known as James I
's favourite, and after his assassination on 23 August 1628 remained well-known for the manner of his death. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Hester Pulter | Hester's father, James Ley
, was a lawyer (in time a judge) who sat for many years as Member of Parliament for Westbury (under Queen Elizabeth, James I and Charles I). At the time of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Richardson | Elizabeth had six sisters and three brothers. Her family was related to the royal favourite the Duke of Buckingham
. Leigh, Dorothy et al. Women’s Writing in Stuart England. Editor Brown, Sylvia, Sutton. 144-5 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under John Ashburnham |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Sutcliffe | Among his successive positions at court, John Sutcliffe was squire to James I
. He described himself (or perhaps an older namesake) in 1627 as an ancient servant of the Duke of Buckingham
, husband... |
Cultural formation | Lady Eleanor Douglas | It was noted, on the Duke of Buckingham
's assassination, that LED
had prophesied his death: her reputation grew. Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press. 2: 393 Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press. 51 |
Cultural formation | Lady Eleanor Douglas | Her public prophesying now took off. She predicted unpleasant fates for the monarchs and for various courtiers including the Duke of Buckingham
. Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press. 50-2 |
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