McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press.
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Publishing | Anne Halkett | In this year there reached print at Edinburgh, together with three works by AH
, a printed version of her memoirs, radically recast by S. C. (who was probably Simon Couper
, one of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Halkett | AH
handles her narrative (which survives only up to the year 1656) with skill. She employs literary reference when the ups and downs of her personal value at court put her in mind of texts... |
Occupation | Anne Finch | Anne Kingsmill (later AF
) became a maid of honour to Mary of Modena
, wife of the future James II
. McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press. 20-1 |
Textual Production | Anne Finch | AF
wrote an elegy, On the Lord Dundee, commemorating John Graham of Claverhouse, who died fighting for James II
at the battle of Killiecrankie. Biographer Barbara McGovern
refers to this Scottish monarchist hero... |
Textual Production | Anne Finch | AF
lamented the death of the former James II
in an elegy published as By a lady Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. O194 James died in France on 16 September (New Style), which at... |
Textual Production | Anne Finch | AF
marked the death of Mary of Modena
(widow of James II
), her former employer, with an elegy rntitled On the Death of the Queen. Mary died on 26 April/7 May (of which... |
Cultural formation | Anne Finch | She was born in the English upper class and baptised into the Anglican
church. A monarchist by family tradition, she developed a Jacobite identity after James II
was ousted from his throne. |
politics | Anne Finch | He was discharged for lack of evidence seven months later. He remained a Non-Juror: that is, he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the new monarchs, William and Mary, a refusal which would... |
politics | Margaret Fell | In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. 87 |
politics | Margaret Fell | Following the death of Charles II, when MF
had just spoken with him (fruitlessly) about a decade after their previous meeting, she had an interview with James II
in February 1685; she later sent an... |
Textual Production | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ephelia | The broadside advises Monmouth
, the Protestant claimant to succeed to the throne, in no uncertain terms to remember his illegitimate birth, re-awaken his loyalty, to scorn the mob, and to realise that the only... |
Textual Production | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | DSCS
's first surviving letter to her much younger brother Henry Sidney
(later Earl of Romney) reported on a serious illness of the king
's. She followed this with political news, including details on the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | Her letters typically discuss the political situation of the time, as well as her thoughts on the activities of courtiers and of her family members. The earliest of them reports on the king's health, the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | DSCS
discusses the English court, and her opinions thereof, in detail in her letters to Halifax. The first one printed gives the names of officers posted to fight the Moors at the British fort of... |
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