King Charles II

Standard Name: Charles II, King
Used Form: Charles the Second

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Publishing Margaret Fell
Around January 1685 (she says both that she was in her seventieth year and that Charles II was very close to his death) she travelled again to London bearing a paper for the king which...
Publishing Elizabeth Stirredge
ES personally placed in the king 's hands a one-paragraph testimony beginning This is unto thee, O King. It was apparently her first venture into writing for print.
The ODNB places this event in January...
Publishing Elizabeth Hooton
It seems that EH 's petition To the King and both Houses of Parliament was personally presented to Charles on this day, though not by her.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Publishing Jane Porter
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...
Publishing Ephelia
The initial letter H (Hail Mighty Prince!) in the 1679 reprint is rendered by a woodcut ornament or factotum with portraits of two crowned figures, one of each sex, with the royal rose...
Publishing Anna Brownell Jameson
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.
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press.
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Publishing Margaret Fell
MF says that she personally travelled two hundred miles to deliver into the king 's own hand one of her Restoration tracts, A Declaration and an Information from us the People of God called Quakers
Reception Georgette Heyer
GH later called her second novel, The Great Roxhythe. (published with Hutchinson in 1922 and set late in the reign of Charles II ), the worst book I ever wrote—the sort of book that makes...
Residence John Locke
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...
Residence Iris Tree
IT 's family moved to Walpole House in Chiswick Mall. Charles II 's mistress Barbara, Lady Castlemaine (patron of Delarivier Manley ) had lived in this house for some years before her death in...
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.
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Textual Features Anne Wentworth
Then follow a number of short, dated passages in prose and verse, beginning with a few from 1677 and 1678. The prophetic refrain Woe to England is heard again.
Wentworth, Anne. The Revelation of Jesus Christ.
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AW draws with gusto on...
Textual Features Edna Lyall
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...
Textual Features Edna Lyall
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...
Textual Features Catherine Gore
In this unusual book CG seems to stand mid-way between Coventry in Pompey, 1752 (using her canine protagonist for intimate satire on the chiefly female upper classes), and Virginia Woolf in Flush, 1933...

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