King Charles II

She was apparently well advanced with volume 6 in October 1773, before she moved to Bath, though it did not reach the public till 1781. It and its companion volume, on the reign of...

EL 's historical novel In the Golden Days, published this month, was the book which Ruskin 's niece Joan (Mrs Arthur) Severn was reading to him just before his death.

Mondisfield Hall, depicted here as it was during the Restoration, is based on Badmondisfield (or Badmondesfield) Hall, an Elizabethan moated manor at Wickhambrook in Suffolk, where as a girl EL used to stay with...

This is another English Civil War story, in which imaginary characters (a pair of courting lovers, a villain, the noble-hearted Charlotte who is based on EL 's nurse during her childhood, and Joscelyn Heyworth and...

Locke spent the latter part of the 1670s in France, and then, for the last couple of years of Charles II 's reign and for the whole of that of James II , lived...

Nearly all the stories are historical fictions, set variously in the time of Plato (365 BC), the reign of Marcus Aurelius (179 AD), and that of Charles II . Their settings range from ancient Greece...

MJ corresponded with Charlotte Lennox and with publisher Ralph Griffiths and his wife Isabella . Her friendship was valued by literary men like Samuel Johnson , Joseph Spence , Thomas Warton , and apparently Bonnell Thornton

EJ wrote a play as a vehicle for her friend Baliol Holloway , in which he collaborated with her, supplying the theatrical expertise and especially his sense of stage timing. He played Charles II in...

A series of articles by ABJ on late seventeenth-century court women appeared in the New Monthly Magazine; these were later published in book form as The Beauties of the Court of King Charles the Second.

EJ intervened in the affair of Dissenting Minister Thomas Rosewell ; she says that courtiers seeking a pardon for Rosewell came to her and begged her to go to the king .

EJ published her only known verse broadside, This Day Did God . . ., which returns to the topic of Charles II .

EJ actively exerted an influence on the course of national affairs. She was a radical traditionalist, monarchist, and Jacobite who was critical of all the Stuart monarchs before Queen Anne , and a high-flying Anglican...

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...

James's strong admonitory style has much in common with that of religious prophets. She is equally ready to cross swords with Quakers and Dissenters on the one hand and Catholics on the other, to venerate...

LH composed and signed in her husband 's name a petition that the House of Commonswould not exclude me from the refuge of the King 's most gratious pardon.