King Charles II

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 .

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.

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.

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...

Of the various writing women connected with Henrietta Maria, CO mentions Margaret Cavendish as a serious-minded girl of literary aspirations, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe , merely as an awed reporter of the good looks...

Other events follow the ending of the inset tale. Dr Scot is involved in a hush-hush mission with General Monck , facilitating the Restoration of Charles II . The story cannot end until the title...

Its topic was the political posturing of Charles 's illegitimate son Monmouth , Protestant claimant to the succession.

KP 's poems range over every degree of a scale reaching from expressions of intense personal feeling to formal comment on public affairs. She wrote on the execution of Charles I , the Restoration of...

Richard Keigwin, a Cornishman, was a naval officer with the East India Company and had a distinguished record when, together with other soldiers who had not been paid, he led a local rebellion against the...

The prologue stresses the author's gender (A Womans Pen presents you with a Play), and jokes about her presumed nervousness and probable madness. In the play Marcelia loves Lotharicus. Her cousin Melynet...

The highly involved plot of this novel brought together a number of high-profile historical London figures to surround the hero and heroine of its love-story: the Merry Monarch himself, his lower-class mistress Nell Gwyn ...

In May the year after her marriage, the new Lady Fanshawe travelled from Oxford to Bristol to rejoin her husband, who was there with the court of the future Charles II . Next year they...

In summer 1663 MF made a thousand-mile journey around the west (from Bristol through Somerset, Devon, and Dorset, then north and through Yorkshire, Northumberland, and Westmorland); five years later...

In November 1670 (after long resisting what she took to be the voice of God bidding her to do this) ES made her one-hundred-mile walk to London to deliver a testimony to King Charles .

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...