King Charles II

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 .

The novel begins with the Lisle family taking up residence at the ill-fated house of Gardenhurst, an estate that had been gambled away by its young heir during the reign of Charles II , and...

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

EIS is nostalgic about the past here, but also somewhat confused. During her chosen period Rebecca and her contemporaries bore no resemblance to the young women of the present century, for they neither despised nor...

The Festival Theatre at Malvern first performed GBS 's Good King Charles 's Golden Days: A History Lesson, a comedy featuring actual historical figures.

In it, Charles II , Nell Gwyn , Isaac Newton , and George Fox , among others, debate religious, scientific, and artistic issues.

SS 's father, the Rev. Philip Henry , was an Oxford graduate whose religious views were shaped by Puritans, and who became distinguished as a Nonconformist minister and gifted preacher. He was ordained in the...

LRR 's second husband (who became William, Lord Russell , in 1678 by the death of his elder brother) became more and more active in opposition to Charles II . From this time LRR was...

The work appeared with an introduction Vindicating the Character of Lord Russel , Against Sir John Dalrymple , &c: LRR , that is, was seen as having historical rather than literary interest.

Her father, Walter Singer , a well-to-do wool merchant and a dissenting minister, had been imprisoned at Ilchester for his beliefs under Charles II (and had met his future wife when she came prison visiting)...

CCR offered support and concern to Thomas Hog (a minister near Auldearn on the Moray Firth, who ended up as a royal chaplain to King William ) while he was being persecuted for his...

ER published Whitefriars; or, The Days of Charles the Second, her first, anonymous historical romance, bearing the date of 1844; it was praised to the skies in the Athenæum.

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 ...

The publisher, Longman , had advertised this work as in the press in a flyer printed in April 1814 (bound into a copy of Modern Times by Eliza Parsons , 1814). Within a couple of...

Since it has prologue, epilogue, and cast-list, the play was evidently meant for performance; it was probably performed, though the sparse theatre records of this time bear no trace of it. The manuscript is...