King Charles II

AH composed an essay Upon the last Change of Publick Affairs and upon the Return of the King.

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.

MF addressed the restored monarch boldly and directly in a number of works; she was the first to explain to him the non-violent nature of Quakerism .

MF printed her Letter sent to the King (together with a Paper written unto the Magistrates in 1664, which was then printed, and should have been Dispersed but was Prevented by Wicked Hands).

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...

EIS published, anonymously, her final novel, Dame Rebecca Berry, or, Court Scenes in the Reign of Charles The Second.

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.

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

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...

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.

GH published a number of biographies, including The Conqueror, 1931 (about William I before 1066), and Royal Escape, 1938 (about the flight of the future Charles II after the Battle of Worcester on...

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...

Anne Kingsmill (later AF ) is now suspected to have written the libretto for John Blow 's masque Venus and Adonis, composed during the reign of Charles II and now sometimes called the first...

The Wandering Prince, the first Jean Plaidy novel in her Stuart series (a historical trilogy on Charles II ), portrayed Charles in exile through the eyes of his sister, Henriette Anne , and one...

Having in a sense revisited the Mary, Queen of Scots story here, she revisited Cromwell in the same ghostly manner in King Charles II, published in early September 1978 (written, she said, therapeutically while...