King James II

EJ responded to published comment on James II 's Declaration of Indulgence with Mrs. James's Vindication of the Church of England.

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...

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...

EJ began to address James II probably early in his reign, in Most Dear Soveraign, I Cannot but Love and Admire You.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This is a tribute in search of a patron: it praises James 's exploits in the Third Dutch War.

Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...

She boosts the Church of England , of course, but also urges William not to assume the throne, but to withdraw, limiting his own contribution to bringing pressure to bear on James II (his father...

AH handles her narrative (which survives only up to the year 1656) with skill. She employs literary reference when the ups and downs of her personal value at court put her in mind of texts...

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...