McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press.
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King James II
Standard Name: James II, King
Used Form: Duke of York
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Anne Finch | Anne Kingsmill (later AF
) became a maid of honour to Mary of Modena
, wife of the future James II
. |
| 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... |
| Occupation | Anne Halkett | The widowed AH
began teaching for a living (not girls, but boys of good family) until James II
granted her a pension in recognition of her former services. Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 3-7. 7 |
| 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
.... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Literary Setting | Anna Maria Porter | The story is set shortly before James II
's abdication, after his alarming assault upon our church. Porter, Anna Maria. The Barony. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 3: 554 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah, Lady Cowper | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | |
| Health | Jane Barker | In early 1726 JB
was reported to be dangerously ill. A few years before 1730 (or possibly, depending on a contested manuscript reading, a few years before 1713) she suffered from something she believed to... |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Barker | While there is no evidence that JB
was close to influential members of the court in exile, a number of her mother's relations were well established there. She made literary advances to many members of... |
| Friends, Associates | Catharine Colace Ross | CCR
offered support and concern to Thomas Hog
(a minister near Auldearn on the Moray Firth, who ended up as a royal chaplain to King William
) while he was being persecuted for his... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Lucy Herbert | James II
rewarded him with the title of marquess (in March 1687) and gave him various official positions (with a dispensation from the Test Act which normally barred Catholics from holding them). Among James's ideologically... |
| 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 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | Winifred's father, William Herbert
, was a major land-owner in the Welsh marches and Wales proper, a convinced and hereditary monarchist, as active in government as his Catholic
religion allowed, a courtier and a soldier... |
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