Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
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Publishing | Elizabeth Cellier | Lady Powis
, governess to the infant Prince of Wales
, brought the baby to the king
with Elizabeth Cellier
's Foundling Hospital petition in his hand. Lady Powis was author of a broadside Ballad... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Delaval | At about thirty-eight but giving her age as thirty, the widowed Lady ED
married a man of about twenty-two, Henry Hatcher (or Thatcher)
of Kirby in Lincolnshire, who was later a military captain and... |
politics | Elizabeth Delaval | A warrant went out for the arrest of Lady Elizabeth Hatcher (the former ED
) as a Jacobite: for helping to convey letters between the exiled James II
and his supporters in England, in an... |
Textual Production | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | DSCS
's first surviving letter to her much younger brother Henry Sidney
(later Earl of Romney) reported on a serious illness of the king
's. She followed this with political news, including details on the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | Her letters typically discuss the political situation of the time, as well as her thoughts on the activities of courtiers and of her family members. The earliest of them reports on the king's health, the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | DSCS
discusses the English court, and her opinions thereof, in detail in her letters to Halifax. The first one printed gives the names of officers posted to fight the Moors at the British fort of... |
Textual Features | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ephelia | The broadside advises Monmouth
, the Protestant claimant to succeed to the throne, in no uncertain terms to remember his illegitimate birth, re-awaken his loyalty, to scorn the mob, and to realise that the only... |
politics | Margaret Fell | In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. 87 |
politics | Margaret Fell | Following the death of Charles II, when MF
had just spoken with him (fruitlessly) about a decade after their previous meeting, she had an interview with James II
in February 1685; she later sent an... |
Textual Production | Margaret Fell | 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... |
Occupation | Anne Finch | Anne Kingsmill (later AF
) became a maid of honour to Mary of Modena
, wife of the future James II
. McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press. 20-1 |
Textual Production | Anne Finch | AF
wrote an elegy, On the Lord Dundee, commemorating John Graham of Claverhouse, who died fighting for James II
at the battle of Killiecrankie. Biographer Barbara McGovern
refers to this Scottish monarchist hero... |
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