Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
King James II
Standard Name: James II, King
Used Form: Duke of York
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Residence | Elizabeth Burnet | During the reign of James II
, Elizabeth Berkeley and her husband lived abroad at her persuasion, near the court of William of Orange
(the future William III of England) at The Hague in the... |
| Residence | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | Ancestors bearing the same name as her father had first bought the Blarney Castle in County Cork estate in 1688 (after Donogh McCarthy, fourth Earl of Clancarthy
, had forfeited it for supporting 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... |
| Publishing | Barbara Blaugdone | |
| politics | Hester Biddle | By this stage in her life she had been imprisoned fourteen times over a period of fifty years. The Society of Friends
gave her permission for her journey. Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992. 389 |
| Reception | Aphra Behn | The Rover brought AB
to the notice of the Duke of York
. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997. 221 |
| Textual Production | Aphra Behn | The end of Charles II
's reign in 1685 drew from AB
three poems of political commentary: A Pindarick on the Death of Our Late Sovereign (the only one by a woman among dozens of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | |
| Textual Production | Aphra Behn | 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... |
| politics | Jane Barker | If, as Kathryn King
believes, Barker sent the evidence of her miraculous cure in 1730 to the mother superior who was formerly Lady Lucy, she did so as part of a concerted campaign to get... |
| Publishing | Jane Barker | Most of her extant manuscripts are at the British Library
and at Magdalen College
, Oxford. Just a few which are more widely scattered (one among the family papers of Jacobite diarist Mary Caesar |
| Residence | Jane Barker | JB
left London, following the ousted King James
, to settle at his court-in-exile at St-Germain-en-Laye near Paris. King, Kathryn R., and Jeslyn Medoff. “Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 21 , No. 3, Nov. 1997, pp. 16-38. 22 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
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