King James II

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Some time after January 1817 SSW published, with her name, a chapbook version of Jane Porter 's The Pastor's Fire-Side. She used a much extended, highly descriptive title: The Pastor's Fireside; or, Memoirs of...

EP may have written a poem addressed to the Duke of York (the future James II ) a year or more after The Frolicks. It must have circulated in manuscript, since it was collected...

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...