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Textual Features | Mary Caesar | Her own meeting with the monarchy in the person of Queen Anne
is handled with hyperbole: it was as Impossible for me Even to Attempt the Beauties of that Excellent Queens Mind, as for Kneller |
Textual Features | Margaret Cavendish | 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 |
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... |
Textual Features | Elinor James | James's strong admonitory style has much in common with that of religious prophets. She is equally ready to cross swords with Quakers and Dissenters on the one hand and Catholics on the other, to venerate... |
Textual Features | Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy | 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
. |
Textual Features | George Bernard Shaw | In it, Charles II
, Nell Gwyn
, Isaac Newton
, and George Fox
, among others, debate religious, scientific, and artistic issues. |
Textual Features | Katharine Tynan | 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. Tynan, Katharine. The Wandering Years. Constable. 246 |
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. 2 |
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 Production | Catharine Macaulay | CM
published volume five of her History of England through Edward and Charles Dilly
, with a subtitle that reads From the Death of Charles I
to the Restoration of Charles II
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 31 (1771): 275 |
Textual Production | Ephelia | The mysterious poet Ephelia
first reached public notice when she produced (besides an anonymous verse eulogy addressed to Charles II
on the Popish Plot) a play, The Pair-Royal of Coxcombs, from which only... |
Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | While working on this book (as once before while working on Charles II
), AF
found that a helpful exercise in optical research was to pack herself physically into priest-holes, the surviving, tiny, secret hiding... |
Textual Production | Ephelia | Roger L'Estrange
, recently appointed Royal Licenser, approved the 2-column broadside eulogy A Poem to His Sacred Majesty
, on the Plot, which was printed as Written by a Gentlewoman: that is, by Ephelia
. Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
Textual Production | Lucy Hutchinson | LH
composed and signed in her husband
's name a petition that the House of Commonswould not exclude me from the refuge of the King
's most gratious pardon. Hutchinson, Lucy. “Introduction”. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, edited by James Sutherland, Oxford University Press, p. xi - xx. xxix Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Editor Sutherland, James, Oxford University Press. 290-2 |
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