McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon.
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politics | John Dryden | By the time this poem saw print, the inadequacy of the Cromwell dynasty was becoming apparent, and Dryden's next important poem hailed the return of Charles II
. It is hardly fair to call him... |
politics | Elinor James | 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
. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 138-9 |
politics | John Milton | Charles II
signed an Act of Free and General Pardon, Indemnity and Oblivion—which also listed those unpardoned, and therefore condemned to death. JM
's name did not appear; he therefore ranked as pardoned. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Lady Rachel Russell | 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... |
politics | Elinor James | 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... |
politics | John Milton | |
politics | Margaret Fell | MF
, on her first visit to London, presented the earliest formal Quaker
peace testimony to Charles II
, whom she went on to visit several times more. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. 136-7 Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press. 220 |
politics | Anne Halkett | In Edinburgh she met the future Charles II
and other monarchist leaders. Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 3-7. 6 |
politics | Elizabeth Cellier | In this month and again in June, EC
was acquitted on two charges of plotting to kill the king
and overthrow the monarchy and church. Cellier, Elizabeth. Malice Defeated and The Matchless Rogue. Editor Gardiner, Anne Barbeau, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California. 33, 41-2 |
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 Cellier, Elizabeth. Malice Defeated and The Matchless Rogue. Editor Gardiner, Anne Barbeau, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California. 5 |
politics | Margaret Fell | In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. 87 |
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... |
politics | Elizabeth Walker | 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... |
Author summary | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | While Dorothy, Countess of Sunderland
, has been known historically as the Sacharissa of Edmund Waller
's poetry, she was also a respected and memorable letter writer. Most of her surviving letters date from her... |
Publishing | Margaret Fell | MF
dated her Letter 6 June. Fell, Margaret. A Brief Collection of Remarkable Passages. J. Sowle. 325 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Kunze
gives its title as Epistle to Charles II, August 1666. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. xiii |
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