Cellier, Elizabeth. A Scheme for a Corporation of Midwives.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | Berry suggests that one last, undated letter to Halifax was probably written in early 1681. This letter contains commentary on the political influence the Duke of York
might hold, despite earlier information having suggested that... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Delaval | At about thirty-eight but giving her age as thirty, the widowed Lady ED
married a man of about twenty-two, Henry Hatcher (or Thatcher)
of Kirby in Lincolnshire, who was later a military captain and... |
politics | Elizabeth Delaval | A warrant went out for the arrest of Lady Elizabeth Hatcher (the former ED
) as a Jacobite: for helping to convey letters between the exiled James II
and his supporters in England, in an... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | |
politics | Elizabeth Cellier | The king
promised EC
, she said, what she had asked for in print: a Corporation of Midwives and a Cradle Hospital
. Cellier, Elizabeth. A Scheme for a Corporation of Midwives. 7 |
Publishing | Elizabeth Cellier | Lady Powis
, governess to the infant Prince of Wales
, brought the baby to the king
with Elizabeth Cellier
's Foundling Hospital petition in his hand. Lady Powis was author of a broadside Ballad... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Cellier | EC
was evidently consulted in her capacity as a midwife by James II
on the failure of his wife, Mary of Modena
, to bear a child. Cellier said the queen was fertile, and advised... |
Residence | Elizabeth Burnet | During the reign of James II
, Elizabeth Berkeley and her husband lived abroad at her persuasion, near the court of William of Orange
(the future William III of England) at The Hague in the... |
Residence | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | Ancestors bearing the same name as her father had first bought the Blarney Castle in County Cork estate in 1688 (after Donogh McCarthy, fourth Earl of Clancarthy
, had forfeited it for supporting James II |
Literary Setting | Mary Boyle | MB
here recounts the story, set during the final days of James II
's reign, of Mary Savile, a fictional maid of honour toMary of Modena
, James's wife (whose actual maids of honour... |
Publishing | Barbara Blaugdone | |
politics | Hester Biddle | By this stage in her life she had been imprisoned fourteen times over a period of fifty years. The Society of Friends
gave her permission for her journey. Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press. 389 |
Reception | Aphra Behn | The Rover brought AB
to the notice of the Duke of York
. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press. 221 |
Textual Production | Aphra Behn | The end of Charles II
's reign in 1685 drew from AB
three poems of political commentary: A Pindarick on the Death of Our Late Sovereign (the only one by a woman among dozens of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn |
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