King Charles II

The protagonist of Orlando notoriously begins as a sixteen-year-old romantic boy in the attic of a palatial great house in the late sixteenth century, practising sword-thrusts at the shrunken head of a Moor killed by...

The novel is primarily set in seventeenth-century London during the reign of Charles II , but it also features episodes in past, present, and future time. The text is divided by a section containing a...

Some time after January 1817 SSW published, with her name, a chapbook version of Jane Porter 's The Pastor's Fire-Side. She used a much extended, highly descriptive title: The Pastor's Fireside; or, Memoirs of...

The year after her second marriage, AW (with thirty-six other women, including Rebecca Travers and Mary Elson ) signed For the King and both Houses of Parliament, a petition against the imprisonment of Friends

AW addressed King Charles II and the Lord Mayor of London in two separate prophecies which deliver apocalyptic judgments on the state of the nation.

Then follow a number of short, dated passages in prose and verse, beginning with a few from 1677 and 1678. The prophetic refrain Woe to England is heard again.AW draws with gusto on...

In 1685, perhaps in connection with the death of Charles II and the succession of the openly Catholic James II , Anthony Walkersuffered some form of persecution for ten days and seems to have...

These fictions tend to juggle stock elements. The House of the Crickets explores the parental tyranny said to be characteristic of rural Irish family life.Betty Carew, March 1910, presents a [w]holesome love...

Her mother, born Sarah Ballenden, was related to three separate Scots noble families. She brought up her daughters at first on an Admiralty pension (discontinued on Charles II 's death, restored by Queen Anne )...

CT 's father, David Trotter, a naval officer in the service of Charles II , died of the plague at Scanderoon in Turkey in early 1684, when his daughter Catharine was probably nine.

RT set her historical novel Restoration (as its name implies) during the reign of Charles II , though it uses that period under which to figure contemporary Britain.

IT 's family moved to Walpole House in Chiswick Mall. Charles II 's mistress Barbara, Lady Castlemaine (patron of Delarivier Manley ) had lived in this house for some years before her death in...

Fan-fan is Patty's first heroine. After one or two more she explains how it happens that she has written all these papers. That is to say, how Robert and I did, for of course I...

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...

ES personally placed in the king 's hands a one-paragraph testimony beginning This is unto thee, O King. It was apparently her first venture into writing for print.