King Charles II

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...

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...

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.AW draws with gusto on...

This is a formal and in many ways old-world celebration, though MC 's irrepressible personality comes through here and there. The title relays the Duke of Newcastle's various honours and peerages. Dedications to the king

These fictions tend to juggle stock elements. The House of the Crickets explores the parental tyranny said to be characteristic of rural Irish family life.Betty Carew, March 1910, presents a [w]holesome love...

Among a number of ladies and noblemen-rakes, a leading character here is Lucy Walter , mistress and allegedly wife of Charles II and mother of the notorious Duke of Monmouth .

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...

This oriental tragedy, set in an exotically-imagined east, opposes a sizzlingly sexual female villain, Homais (played by Elizabeth Barry ), and a model, patient, suffering but excessive heroine, Princess Selima (played by Anne Bracegirdle

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

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...

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.

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

EJ published her only known verse broadside, This Day Did God . . ., which returns to the topic of Charles II .

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...

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...