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Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Savage | SS
's father, the Rev. Philip Henry
, was an Oxford graduate whose religious views were shaped by Puritans, and who became distinguished as a Nonconformist minister and gifted preacher. He was ordained in the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Trotter | Her mother, born Sarah Ballenden, was related to three separate Scots noble families. She brought up her daughters at first on an Admiralty pension (discontinued on Charles II
's death, restored by Queen Anne
)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grisell Murray | Lady Grisell or Grizell Hume
, later Baillie, was the daughter of Scottish Covenanter
Sir Patrick Hume (later Earl of Marchmont). Born on Christmas Day in 1665 at Redbraes Castle in Berwickshire, Grisell played... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Brilliana, Lady Harley | Lady Harley tried but failed to get Edward elected to parliament at the age of eighteen. Later he held the seat for Hereford. He commanded a troop of horse in the parliamentary army, and was... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Trotter | CT
's father, David Trotter, a naval officer in the service of Charles II
, died of the plague at Scanderoon in Turkey in early 1684, when his daughter Catharine was probably nine. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago. 406 Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate. 3 and n10 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grisell Murray | As Grisell Baillie
's story makes clear, her father, Sir Patrick Hume, later Earl of Marchmont
, Grisell Murray's maternal grandfather, was an important figure in Scotland, a national and religious (Presbyterian) leader. So was... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances, Lady Norton | Frances Freke married George Norton
of Abbots Leigh in North Somerset (a house which was famous for having sheltered the disguised fugitive future Charles II
in autumn 1651 after the battle of Worcester). The date... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Lucy Herbert | Lady Powis
, mother of two future writers (Lucy
and Winifred
, then about ten and seven), joined her husband
in the Tower of London, on a charge of Roman Catholic plotting against... |
Friends, Associates | Catharine Colace Ross | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Jones | 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 |
Health | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | 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 novel followed on the heels of Anna Jameson |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Bernard Shaw | The Festival Theatre
at Malvern first performed GBS
's Good King Charles
's Golden Days: A History Lesson, a comedy featuring actual historical figures. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. |
Literary Setting | Anna Steele | The novel begins with the Lisle family taking up residence at the ill-fated house of Gardenhurst, an estate that had been gambled away by its young heir during the reign of Charles II
, and... |
Literary Setting | Jeanette Winterson | The novel is primarily set in seventeenth-century London during the reign of Charles II
, but it also features episodes in past, present, and future time. The text is divided by a section containing a... |
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