King Charles II

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

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 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 .

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...

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...