Halkett, Anne, and S. C. The Life of the Lady Halket. Andrew Symson and Henry Knox.
King Charles II
Standard Name: Charles II, King
Used Form: Charles the Second
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| Textual Production | Anne Halkett | |
| Textual Production | Rose Tremain | 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. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 271 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Margaret Fell | |
| Textual Production | Margaret Fell | 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). OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Jenkins | EJ
wrote a play as a vehicle for her friend Baliol Holloway
, in which he collaborated with her, supplying the theatrical expertise and especially his sense of stage timing. He played Charles II
in... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | EIS
published, anonymously, her final novel, Dame Rebecca Berry, or, Court Scenes in the Reign of Charles The Second. Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Dame Rebecca Berry. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green . prelims |
| Textual Production | Anne Wentworth | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| 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 Features | Catherine Gore | In this unusual book CG
seems to stand mid-way between Coventry
in Pompey, 1752 (using her canine protagonist for intimate satire on the chiefly female upper classes), and Virginia Woolf
in Flush, 1933... |
| Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | This oriental tragedy, set in an exotically-imagined east, opposes a sizzlingly sexual female villain, Homais (played by Elizabeth Barry
), and a model, patient, suffering but excessive heroine, Princess Selima (played by Anne Bracegirdle |
| Textual Features | Ephelia | Its tone of hyperbolical praise for the monarchy is set by the opening couplet: Hail Mighty Prince! whom Providence design'd / To be the chief delight of Human Kind. Ephelia,. A Poem to His Sacred Majesty, on the Plot. Henry Brome. |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Goudge | Her protagonist, Lucy Walter
, was an actual person, mistress or perhaps wife to Charles II
and mother of the Duke of Monmouth
. EG
was moved to write her story after reading Lucy Walter... |
| 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 |
Timeline
November 1681: John Dryden published his political satire...
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November 1681
John Dryden
published his political satireAbsalom and Achitophel, at Charles II
's personal suggestion, just a week before the first Earl of Shaftesbury
's trial for treason.
22 March 1683: A fire at the racing centre of Newmarket...
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22 March 1683
A fire at the racing centre of Newmarket preserved the lives of Charles II
and his brother
; by leaving early for London they avoided a planned assassination.
13 July 1683: William, Lord Russell (husband of the letter-writer...
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13 July 1683
William, Lord Russell
(husband of the letter-writer Lady Rachel
), stood trial for High Treason, accused of planning to assassinate the king
in an alleged Protestant Plot.
30 January 1685: John Evelyn observed Charles II, a week before...
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30 January 1685
John Evelyn
observed Charles II
, a week before he died, sitting and toying with three of his mistresses, listening to a french boy singing love songs, while courtiers played basset (a card game) for...
6 February 1685: King Charles II died and his brother James...
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6 February 1685
King Charles II
died and his brother James II
(who was also James VII of Scotland) assumed the throne.
6 July 1685: The Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion, aimed at...
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6 July 1685
The Duke of Monmouth
's Rebellion, aimed at getting possession of the throne, ended in defeat at Sedgemoor in Somerset, with much loss of life.
February 1689 to October 1791: The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between...
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February 1689 to October 1791
The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between supporters of the deposed James II
(who landed at Kinsale on 12 March 1689 with substantial French forces) and supporters of William of Orange
(who had assumed...
April 1698: Jeremy Collier published his Short View of...
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April 1698
Jeremy Collier
published his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, a book in heavy-handed pamphlet style with exaggerated typography.
1702-1704: The History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde,...
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1702-1704
The History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
, was posthumously published.
8 March 1702: King William III died and Queen Anne assumed...
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8 March 1702
King William III
died and Queen Anne
assumed the throne; she was crowned on 23 April, which was Charles II
's coronation day as well as St George's Day.
Between March 1844 and August 1845: The hugely prolific Alexandre Dumas published...
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Between March 1844 and August 1845
The hugely prolific Alexandre Dumas
published not only his best-known novel, The Three Musketeers, but also The Count of Monte-Cristo, Twenty Years After, and La Reine Margot.
Mid-March 2009: The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, a home for British...
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Mid-March 2009
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
, a home for British Army
veterans founded by Charles II
in 1682, admitted its two first female pensioners, Dorothy Hughes
and Winifred Phillips
, both in their eighties.
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