Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
King James II
Standard Name: James II, King
Used Form: Duke of York
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. 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 | 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... |
| 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 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... |
| 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 Production | Elizabeth Polwhele | 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... |
| 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 | Anna Maria Porter | 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... |
| 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 |
| Publishing | Jane Porter | The publisher, Longman
, had advertised this work as in the press in a flyer printed in April 1814 (bound into a copy of Modern Times by Eliza Parsons
, 1814). Within a couple 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah, Lady Cowper | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Savage | SS
's father, the Rev. Philip Henry
, was an Oxford graduate whose religious views were shaped by Puritans, and who became distinguished as a Nonconformist minister and gifted preacher. He was ordained in the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | MAS
pruned and updated the text (in its original form of a letter more than a hundred pages long addressed to My Reverend Mother on Christmas Eve, 1667—that is, to Agnès Artaud
). Schimmelpenninck felt... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Agnes Strickland | The monarchical attitudes of these bishops who remained loyal to their oaths to James II
were in tune with those of AS
nearly two centuries later. |
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