King Charles II

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

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Textual Production Aphra Behn
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...
Textual Production Edna Lyall
EL 's historical novel In the Golden Days, published this month, was the book which Ruskin 's niece Joan (Mrs Arthur) Severn was reading to him just before his death.
The title comes from...
Textual Production Anne Finch
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...
Textual Production Georgette Heyer
GH published a number of biographies, including The Conqueror, 1931 (about William I before 1066), and Royal Escape, 1938 (about the flight of the future Charles II after the Battle of Worcester on...
Textual Production Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
Some time after January 1817 SSW published, with her name, a chapbook version of Jane Porter 's The Pastor's Fire-Side. She used a much extended, highly descriptive title: The Pastor's Fireside; or, Memoirs of...
Textual Production Antonia Fraser
Having in a sense revisited the Mary, Queen of Scots story here, she revisited Cromwell in the same ghostly manner in King Charles II, published in early September 1978 (written, she said, therapeutically while...
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
The Wandering Prince, the first Jean Plaidy novel in her Stuart series (a historical trilogy on Charles II ), portrayed Charles in exile through the eyes of his sister, Henriette Anne , and one...
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 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 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 Emma Robinson
ER published Whitefriars; or, The Days of Charles the Second, her first, anonymous historical romance, bearing the date of 1844; it was praised to the skies in the Athenæum.
A monastery called Whitefriars...
Textual Production Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland
DSCS 's first surviving letter to her much younger brother Henry Sidney (later Earl of Romney) reported on a serious illness of the king 's. She followed this with political news, including details on the...
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.
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Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Editor Sutherland, James, Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
The title of the folio is The History of The Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II. King of England and Lord of Ireland. With The Rise and Fall of his great Favourites, Gaveston and...

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