Algernon Sidney

DSCS died three months after her brother Algernon 's execution. The exact date and cause of her death are not known.

Dorothy's four surviving brothers adhered to different parts of their father's divided loyalties. Philip , the eldest (and heir to the title although he quarrelled bitterly with his father), fought on the parliamentarian side in...

During the English Civil War, DSCS had close relatives on both sides of the conflict. Her husband supported the royalist cause, fought, and ultimately died for it. He also gave Charles I a loan...

By undertaking archival work in seventeenth-century pamphlets, CM set out to ensure that her history should surpass that of Hume (who was generally regarded as a Tory historian, though he was ambivalent about this label)...

EL moved from Lincoln to Eastbourne in 1884 with her sister and her brother-in-law the Rev. Hampden Jameson . Their house in College Road, Eastbourne, was a picturesque gabled, red-tiled house, covered with...

The feelings of this Emma are all in extremes. During her early passion she quotes Frances Greville on the pains of sensibility. She and her father kneel alternately to each other when she...

In the play Lord Russell is first seen as he hears the news that the King has dissolved the parliament: he has Quite broken with his people, and to govern / Must needs oppress them...

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...