Clifford, Lady Anne. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition. Editor Acheson, Katherine O., Garland.
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Wealth and Poverty | Lady Anne Clifford | The king
undertook to mediate on the estates which LAC
claimed; she told him she would not accept a verdict against her. Clifford, Lady Anne. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition. Editor Acheson, Katherine O., Garland. 66-8 |
Wealth and Poverty | Lady Anne Clifford | Mother and daughter felt completely assured of LAC
's right to the Clifford property, as well as to four castles in Westmorland that had formed part of her mother's jointure (that is, property allotted to... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Antonia Fraser | Fraser quotes here from Eliot
's tribute in Middlemarch to the silent influence of those who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England. Methuen. xiii |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Antonia Fraser | This book manages almost as large a cast of characters as The Weaker Vessel—including major figures such as Guy Fawkes
, Thomas Winter
, and Robert (Robin) Catesby
; rulers such as King James |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Carola Oman | CO
first relates how Elizabeth's family migrated south from Edinburgh when her father became James I
of England as well as James VI of Scotland. Her story takes in Elizabeth's wedding at Whitehall to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vita Sackville-West | The whole of the chapter dealing with Knole House in the reign of James I
is taken up with a vivid account of Lady Anne Clifford
, who appealed to VSW
as a fellow-exile, though... |
Textual Production | Catharine Macaulay | CM
published, with her name, the first volume of her History of England from the Accession of James I
to that of the Brunswick Line—that is, the Hanoverian monarchs. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 16 (1763): 321 |
Textual Production | Catharine Macaulay | CM
published volume three of her History of England, From the Accession of James I, with a subtitle that reads to the Elevation of the House of Hanover. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 23 (1767): 81 |
Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | |
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... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Melvill | EM
is now identified as the M. M. (for Mistress Melville) listed on the title-page as author of Ane Godlie Dreame, Compylit in Scottish Meter, a 60-stanza dream-vision poem printed at Edinburgh this... |
Textual Production | Lady Arbella Stuart | The latest surviving letter-writing by LAS
consists of several overlapping drafts of a petition she addressed to James I
, begging him not to believe malicious rumours against her. Stuart, Lady Arbella. The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart. Editor Steen, Sara Jayne, Oxford University Press. 263-6 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | The full title was The Reply of the Most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the Most Excellent King of Great Britaine: Perron had published in 1620 his riposte to a letter... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Melvill | John Welsh
was imprisoned in Blackness Castle (across the River Forth from Rosyth) in connection with the abortive Church of Scotland
General Assembly at Aberdeen. EM
wrote for him in prison A Sonnet Sent... |
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