King Charles II

The second play in this volume, Lord and Lady Russell was met with much less interest than Elfinella. It is a historical drama set in the court of King Charles II . The despicable...

Nearly all the stories are historical fictions, set variously in the time of Plato (365 BC), the reign of Marcus Aurelius (179 AD), and that of Charles II . Their settings range from ancient Greece...

An introductory address To the Reviewers urges them (with the trembling deemed appropriate for a woman writer) not to read the book in the morning but in the period of good humour after dinner.

EIS is nostalgic about the past here, but also somewhat confused. During her chosen period Rebecca and her contemporaries bore no resemblance to the young women of the present century, for they neither despised nor...

This narrative was apparently planned to fit its six illustrations: portraits of imaginary beauties by Edmund Thomas Parris (whose work featured also in Gems of Beauty).

The Festival Theatre at Malvern first performed GBS 's Good King Charles 's Golden Days: A History Lesson, a comedy featuring actual historical figures.

DSCS suffered a serious attack of ague (fever). To her brother Henry she attributed her recovery to a medicine referred to at the time as the Jesuits' powders , which had also cured Charles II

CCR offered support and concern to Thomas Hog (a minister near Auldearn on the Moray Firth, who ended up as a royal chaplain to King William ) while he was being persecuted for his...

MJ corresponded with Charlotte Lennox and with publisher Ralph Griffiths and his wife Isabella . Her friendship was valued by literary men like Samuel Johnson , Joseph Spence , Thomas Warton , and apparently Bonnell Thornton

Lucy's father, William Herbert , owned estates in Wales and the Welsh marches, although much of the family's large properties had been forfeited after they fought for the monarchy in the English Civil War...

Constantia had as godmother the dowager Duchess of Bolton , who was an illegitimate grand-daughter of Charles II through the once-notorious Duke of Monmouth. As a child Constantia was a member of the duchess's household...

LP was proud of her mother's descent from Colonel William Meade (her own great-grandfather), who fought for Charles II in the Civil War.

Her father, Walter Singer , a well-to-do wool merchant and a dissenting minister, had been imprisoned at Ilchester for his beliefs under Charles II (and had met his future wife when she came prison visiting)...

Of the ten children borne by Elizabeth (both as Lady Brackley and as Lady Bridgewater), seven outlived her although only four seem to have lived long enough to reach modern records: John , born on...

Lionel Cranfield, third Earl of Middlesex , challenged Lord Bridgewater (who had just been appointed guardian of his niece) to a duel in deliberately insulting language—Billingsgate dialect, Bridgewater called it, from the notoriously...