King Charles II

The year after her second marriage, AW (with thirty-six other women, including Rebecca Travers and Mary Elson ) signed For the King and both Houses of Parliament, a petition against the imprisonment of Friends

AW addressed King Charles II and the Lord Mayor of London in two separate prophecies which deliver apocalyptic judgments on the state of the nation.

EIS published, anonymously, her final novel, Dame Rebecca Berry, or, Court Scenes in the Reign of Charles The Second.

MF addressed the restored monarch boldly and directly in a number of works; she was the first to explain to him the non-violent nature of Quakerism .

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 .

MF printed her Letter sent to the King (together with a Paper written unto the Magistrates in 1664, which was then printed, and should have been Dispersed but was Prevented by Wicked Hands).

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.

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 .

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.