Milling, Jane. “’In the Female Coasts of Fame’: women’s dramatic writing on the public stage, 1669-71”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Polwhele | This is a tribute in search of a patron: it praises James
's exploits in the Third Dutch War. Milling, Jane. “’In the Female Coasts of Fame’: women’s dramatic writing on the public stage, 1669-71”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 2, pp. 267-93. 283 |
Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | In the last decade of her life, JP
published another twelve historical novels under this name: a thirteenth appeared in the year of her death, 1993. Some of these novels revisit ground or people covered... |
Textual Features | Mary Pix | The fall of the Sultan Ibrahim is may suggest that of James II
, but he is deposed mainly for sexual depravity: he likes virgins, and his wicked mistress, Sheker Para, is eager to keep... |
Literary Setting | Ouida | The title piece is set during the Glorious Revolution and begins just before James II
is forced from the throne by William of Orange
. The story's characters naturally take the romantic side: as Jacobites... |
Textual Production | Grisell Murray | Based on the Marchmont Papers, this book criticised Fox's take on the reign of James II
. Rose stated that as a close friend of the third Earl of Marchmont
, he felt an obligation... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Delarivier Manley | DM
's father, Sir Roger Manley
, was a royalist soldier and writer. He died in March 1687, though Delarivier claimed the cause of his death was grief for James II
's expulsion. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. The Adventures of Rivella, edited by Katherine Zelinsky, Broadview, pp. 9-38. 23 Manley, Delarivier. The Adventures of Rivella. Editor Zelinsky, Katherine, Broadview. 60 |
Textual Production | Anna Maria Mackenzie | This novel is available from Chawton House LibraryNovels Online at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The dedication is dated 1 March and the book was reviewed by July. An advertisement for AMM
's previous novel appears at the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catharine Macaulay | CM
sought to memorialise the men whose struggles had secured the reputation of England as a nation of liberty at the time of the Civil War, while believing that oppression in England had begun when... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catharine Macaulay | This volume deals with the reign of James II
, closing in 1689. CM
concluded with a direct appeal to the ingenuous [that is, sincere] and uncorrupted part of my countrymen to condemn tyrants and... |
Residence | John Locke | Locke spent the latter part of the 1670s in France, and then, for the last couple of years of Charles II
's reign and for the whole of that of James II
, lived... |
Occupation | Anne Killigrew | AK
also became a noted amateur painter. There are records of her portrait, religious, and mythological works; she also produced more than one self-portrait. The present royal collection includes her portrait of James II
.... |
Textual Production | Elinor James | EJ
responded to published comment on James II
's Declaration of Indulgence with Mrs. James's Vindication of the Church of England. The English Short Title Catalogue records two versions of this, only one of... |
politics | Elinor James | EJ
actively exerted an influence on the course of national affairs. She was a radical traditionalist, monarchist, and Jacobite who was critical of all the Stuart monarchs before Queen Anne
, and a high-flying Anglican... |
Textual Features | Elinor James | James's strong admonitory style has much in common with that of religious prophets. She is equally ready to cross swords with Quakers and Dissenters on the one hand and Catholics on the other, to venerate... |
Textual Production | Elinor James | EJ
began to address James II
probably early in his reign, in Most Dear Soveraign, I Cannot but Love and Admire You. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 137-8 The English Short Title Catalogue dates this [1689], but Paula McDowell |
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