Ephelia,. A Poem to His Sacred Majesty, on the Plot. Henry Brome.
King Charles II
Standard Name: Charles II, King
Used Form: Charles the Second
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| 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 | 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. |
| 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 |
| Textual Features | Anne Halkett | In this retrospective work AH
expressed horror at the excesses of the Scots Presbyterians
. She also gives here the dates of birth and death of her children, details about her financial trouble with her... |
| Textual Features | Margaret Cavendish | This is a formal and in many ways old-world celebration, though MC
's irrepressible personality comes through here and there. The title relays the Duke of Newcastle's various honours and peerages. Dedications to the king |
| Residence | John Locke | Locke spent the latter part of the 1670s in France, and then, for the last couple of years of Charles II
's reign and for the whole of that of James II
, lived... |
| Residence | Iris Tree | IT
's family moved to Walpole House in Chiswick Mall. Charles II
's mistress Barbara, Lady Castlemaine
(patron of Delarivier Manley
) had lived in this house for some years before her death in... |
| Residence | Mary Carleton | About her life in CologneMC
says only that the appearance of exiled English cavaliers there gave her a high opinion of their nation, and that she longed to see the banished Charles II
. Suzuki, Mihoko. “The Case of Madam Mary Carleton: Representing the Female Subject, 1663-73”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, pp. 61-83. 81n8, 64 |
| Reception | Georgette Heyer | GH
later called her second novel, The Great Roxhythe. (published with Hutchinson
in 1922 and set late in the reign of Charles II
), the worst book I ever wrote—the sort of book that makes... |
| Publishing | Margaret Fell | |
| Publishing | Margaret Fell | MF
dated her Letter 6 June. Fell, Margaret. A Brief Collection of Remarkable Passages. J. Sowle. 325 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Kunze
gives its title as Epistle to Charles II, August 1666. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. xiii |
| Publishing | Margaret Fell | Around January 1685 (she says both that she was in her seventieth year and that Charles II was very close to his death) she travelled again to London bearing a paper for the king which... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Stirredge | ES
personally placed in the king
's hands a one-paragraph testimony beginning This is unto thee, O King. It was apparently her first venture into writing for print. The ODNB places this event in January... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Hooton | It seems that EH
's petition To the King and both Houses of Parliament was personally presented to Charles
on this day, though not by her. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
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