Cellier, Elizabeth. Malice Defeated and The Matchless Rogue. Editor Gardiner, Anne Barbeau, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California.
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King Charles II
Standard Name: Charles II, King
Used Form: Charles the Second
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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Elizabeth Cellier | EC
was to perform the semi-illicit task of distributing charitable donations which had been gathered for poor Catholics in prison. She also compiled a dossier, with names of witnesses, of the Tyrannical Barbarisme |
| politics | Elizabeth Cellier | The double agent Willoughby (otherwise Thomas Dangerfield
) had concealed the evidence in order to incriminate her. Interrogated in Newgate PrisonNewgate Prison, EC
proved bold and disrespectful of authority. She was, she said, not the... |
| Textual Features | Margaret Cavendish | This is a formal and in many ways old-world celebration, though MC
's irrepressible personality comes through here and there. The title relays the Duke of Newcastle's various honours and peerages. Dedications to the king |
| Residence | Mary Carleton | About her life in CologneMC
says only that the appearance of exiled English cavaliers there gave her a high opinion of their nation, and that she longed to see the banished Charles II
. Suzuki, Mihoko. “The Case of Madam Mary Carleton: Representing the Female Subject, 1663-73”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, pp. 61-83. 81n8, 64 |
| Dedications | Mary Carleton | According to critic Mihoko Suzuki
, The Case incorporates two portraits of its protagonist. The same plate was apparently used in two versions, one revised as to the hairstyle and ageing of the face. One... |
| Textual Features | Mary Caesar | Her own meeting with the monarchy in the person of Queen Anne
is handled with hyperbole: it was as Impossible for me Even to Attempt the Beauties of that Excellent Queens Mind, as for Kneller |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Brilliana, Lady Harley | Lady Harley tried but failed to get Edward elected to parliament at the age of eighteen. Later he held the seat for Hereford. He commanded a troop of horse in the parliamentary army, and was... |
| 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 |
| politics | Hester Biddle | George Fox
later reported meeting HB
in the Strand in London in about 1657, at a time when Cromwell
was persecuting Quakers
. She told him of her plan to seek out the future Charles II |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Textual Production | Aphra Behn | The end of Charles II
's reign in 1685 drew from AB
three poems of political commentary: A Pindarick on the Death of Our Late Sovereign (the only one by a woman among dozens of... |
| Dedications | Aphra Behn | According to its title-page, it was published in 1689. O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Garland. 155 |
| Cultural formation | Agnes Beaumont | Hers was the first name that Bunyan entered as joining this Puritan
congregation, not long after his release from prison under the terms of Charles II
's Declaration of Indulgence (promulgated on 15 March 1672)... |
| Textual Features | Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy | Among a number of ladies and noblemen-rakes, a leading character here is Lucy Walter
, mistress and allegedly wife of Charles II
and mother of the notorious Duke of Monmouth
. |
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