King James II

JB left London, following the ousted King James , to settle at his court-in-exile at St-Germain-en-Laye near Paris.

When James II fled from his kingdom at the end of 1688, LLH 's parents accompanied him into France to his court at St Germain. They sent for her at some time over the...

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...

This novel is set in France, England, and Ireland. The action occurs in the seventeenth century as a Huguenot girl escapes oppression in France by fleeing to England and then Ireland...

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...

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...

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...

EJ began to address James II probably early in his reign, in Most Dear Soveraign, I Cannot but Love and Admire You.

After James II had fled the country in 1688, AB received a flattering invitation from Gilbert Burnet (who in 1682 had tried to divide her from Anne Wharton on moral grounds) to welcome the new...

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...

AF wrote an elegy, On the Lord Dundee, commemorating John Graham of Claverhouse, who died fighting for James II at the battle of Killiecrankie.

AF lamented the death of the former James II in an elegy published as By a lady and only recently identified as hers.

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.

The title-page bears a quotation from a manuscript play. AMP 's To the Reader, dated at Esher in Surrey, April 1830, says she had written one volume of this book and planned the...

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...