Leibell, Sister Helen Dominica. Anglo-Saxon Education of Women: From Hilda to Hildegarde. B. Franklin.
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Wealth and Poverty | Elinor James | Thomas James's will, proved in May 1710, did not leave EJ
the library: he intended it to become a public library in its own right, under the title of the Jameson Society. Elinor, however, got... |
Wealth and Poverty | Aphra Behn | AB
, facing prison for her debt of £150, petitioned the king
for arrears of payment. Leibell, Sister Helen Dominica. Anglo-Saxon Education of Women: From Hilda to Hildegarde. B. Franklin. 127 Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press. 119 |
Violence | Elizabeth Hooton | Although she had written permission from the king
to buy land, and although she was at least sixty years old, EH
was seized in Boston, stripped to the waist (despite the snow), tied to... |
Travel | Ann, Lady Fanshawe | In May the year after her marriage, the new Lady Fanshawe travelled from Oxford to Bristol to rejoin her husband, who was there with the court of the future Charles II
. Next year they... |
Travel | Margaret Fell | In summer 1663 MF
made a thousand-mile journey around the west (from Bristol through Somerset, Devon, and Dorset, then north and through Yorkshire, Northumberland, and Westmorland); five years later... |
Travel | Elizabeth Stirredge | In November 1670 (after long resisting what she took to be the voice of God bidding her to do this) ES
made her one-hundred-mile walk to London to deliver a testimony to King Charles
. Stirredge, Elizabeth. Strength in Weakness Manifest. J. Sowle. 37-40 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Boothby | The prologue stresses the author's gender (A Womans Pen presents you with a Play), Milling, Jane. “’In the Female Coasts of Fame’: women’s dramatic writing on the public stage, 1669-71”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 2, pp. 267-93. 280 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emma Robinson | The highly involved plot of this novel brought together a number of high-profile historical London figures to surround the hero and heroine of its love-story: the Merry Monarch
himself, his lower-class mistress Nell Gwyn
... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Carola Oman | Of the various writing women connected with Henrietta Maria, CO
mentions Margaret Cavendish
as a serious-minded girl of literary aspirations, Oman, Carola. Henrietta Maria. Hodder and Stoughton. 152 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Cassandra Cooke | Other events follow the ending of the inset tale. Dr Scot is involved in a hush-hush mission with General Monck
, facilitating the Restoration of Charles II
. The story cannot end until the title... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katherine Philips | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Aphra Behn | Its topic was the political posturing of Charles
's illegitimate son Monmouth
, Protestant claimant to the succession. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ray Strachey | Richard Keigwin, a Cornishman, was a naval officer with the East India Company
and had a distinguished record when, together with other soldiers who had not been paid, he led a local rebellion against the... |
Textual Production | Ephelia | The mysterious poet Ephelia
first reached public notice when she produced (besides an anonymous verse eulogy addressed to Charles II
on the Popish Plot) a play, The Pair-Royal of Coxcombs, from which only... |
Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | While working on this book (as once before while working on Charles II
), AF
found that a helpful exercise in optical research was to pack herself physically into priest-holes, the surviving, tiny, secret hiding... |
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