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Textual Features | George Bernard Shaw | In it, Charles II
, Nell Gwyn
, Isaac Newton
, and George Fox
, among others, debate religious, scientific, and artistic issues. |
Textual Features | Katharine Tynan | These fictions tend to juggle stock elements. The House of the Crickets explores the parental tyranny said to be characteristic of rural Irish family life. Tynan, Katharine. The Wandering Years. Constable. 246 |
Textual Features | Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy | Among a number of ladies and noblemen-rakes, a leading character here is Lucy Walter
, mistress and allegedly wife of Charles II
and mother of the notorious Duke of Monmouth
. |
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 | 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. Ephelia,. A Poem to His Sacred Majesty, on the Plot. Henry Brome. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | The title of the folio is The History of The Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II. King of England and Lord of Ireland. With The Rise and Fall of his great Favourites, Gaveston
and... |
Textual Production | Anne Halkett | AH
composed an essay Upon the last Change of Publick Affairs and upon the Return of the King. Halkett, Anne, and S. C. The Life of the Lady Halket. Andrew Symson and Henry Knox. |
Textual Production | Elinor James | EJ
published her only known verse broadside, This Day Did God . . ., which returns to the topic of Charles II
. 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 | 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 |
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