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King Charles II
Standard Name: Charles II, King
Used Form: Charles the Second
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Violence | Elizabeth Hooton | Although she had written permission from the king
to buy land, and although she was at least sixty years old, EH
was seized in Boston, stripped to the waist (despite the snow), tied to... |
| politics | Elizabeth Hooton | EH
went to Whitehall Palace in London and argued with the king
. Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press. 128 and n4 |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Georgette Heyer | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Lucy Herbert | Lady Powis
, mother of two future writers (Lucy
and Winifred
, then about ten and seven), joined her husband
in the Tower of London, on a charge of Roman Catholic plotting against... |
| Cultural formation | Lady Lucy Herbert | Her family's titles, wealth, elite status, and remarkable record of high ability were somewhat offset by the RomanCatholic
faith which excluded them from some of the civil rights and privileges possessed by other English or... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Lucy Herbert | Lucy's father, William Herbert
, owned estates in Wales and the Welsh marches, although much of the family's large properties had been forfeited after they fought for the monarchy in the English Civil War... |
| Literary Setting | Isabella Neil Harwood | The second play in this volume, Lord and Lady Russell was met with much less interest than Elfinella. It is a historical drama set in the court of King Charles II
. The despicable... |
| Textual Production | Anne Halkett | AH
composed an essay Upon the last Change of Publick Affairs and upon the Return of the King. Halkett, Anne, and S. C. The Life of the Lady Halket. Andrew Symson and Henry Knox. |
| 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 |
| Textual Features | Anne Halkett | In this retrospective work AH
expressed horror at the excesses of the Scots Presbyterians
. She also gives here the dates of birth and death of her children, details about her financial trouble with her... |
| Literary Setting | Sarah Green | It opens in France and England during what was in England the interregnum period, and moves onwards into the reign of Charles II
. The heroine writes her story retrospectively in a letter to a... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Goudge | Her protagonist, Lucy Walter
, was an actual person, mistress or perhaps wife to Charles II
and mother of the Duke of Monmouth
. EG
was moved to write her story after reading Lucy Walter... |
| 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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