Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First. Longman.
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Textual Production | Lucy Aikin | For her Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First, again in two volumes, LA
drew on manuscript as well as printed sources. Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First. Longman. title-page Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Wealth and Poverty | Ann, Lady Fanshawe | The family of Ann Harrison (later ALF
) fell into comparative poverty, owing to her father's having lent the immense sum of £50,000 to the king
in November 1640. Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Preface, Introduction, Select Bibliography”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, p. v - xxi. xv Ann, Lady Fanshawe, et al. “The Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis and John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 101-92. 111 |
politics | Ann, Lady Fanshawe | In autumn 1647 ALF
visited the captive King Charles I
at Hampton Court. The king called her husband Dick. Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Preface, Introduction, Select Bibliography”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, p. v - xxi. xvi |
Textual Production | Mary Astell | This royalist manifesto, while making a show of interpreting the Whig Dr White Kennett
's sermon on 31 January (the anniversary of the death of Charles I
) as loyal praise of the Royal Martyr... |
Cultural formation | Hester Biddle | Brought up an Anglican
, she was initially disturbed at the King
's execution. In the bloody City of London she lived like the prodigal son after his riotous period had ended, feeding .... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Blackburn | Another ancestor on her mother's side was Thomas Coventry
(1578-1640), Lord Keeper, who was Chancellor during the reign of Charles I
. He got into his possession the shirt worn by the monarch at his... |
Literary Setting | Anna Eliza Bray | The book is set in the English countryside at the estate of Warleigh in Devon during the reign of Charles I
. Bray, Anna Eliza. The Novels and Romances of Anna Eliza Bray. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1: xxiii-xxiv Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
Literary Setting | Anna Eliza Bray | Like Warleigh, the novel is again set during the reign of Charles I
, and incorporates folklore and legends from Devon and Cornwall. Bray, Anna Eliza. The Novels and Romances of Anna Eliza Bray. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1: xl Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Textual Features | Mary Caesar | MC
begins with a commemorative account of the dealings of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford
(First Lord of the Treasury under Queen Anne
), with her husband, Charles Caesar
. It was news of... |
Occupation | Lucy Cary | As a young woman at the court of Charles I
, LC
was known for fine dressing and jeering wit. Latz, Dorothy L. "Glow-Worm Light": Writings of Seventeenth-Century English Recusant Women from Original Manuscripts. University of Salzburg. 121 |
Education | Mary Cary | Her works show clearly that she was not without education (which would have taken place as Charles I
was becoming bitterly unpopular with nonconformist elements in society). Nevertheless, once into a propaganda career she was... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Cary | Here MC
urges the Saints to take up arms against their oppressors (Charles I
is damagingly identified with the little horn of the beast in Revelations), and foresees an early fulfilment of the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Jane Cavendish | The then Earl of Newcastle
offered hospitality at Welbeck to Charles I
on his journey north to be crowned King of Scotland: probably the first taste of court life for the children Lady Jane
and... |
politics | Lady Jane Cavendish | Bolsover too surrendered to parliamentarians ten days after Welbeck. The parliamentary forces at Welbeck, under the command of Colonel Thornhaugh
, Starr, Nathan Comfort. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Concealed Fansyes</span>: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley”. PMLA, Vol. 46 , No. 3, pp. 805-36. 803 |
Violence | Margaret Cavendish | Margaret and her mother and sisters spent several days in Colchester jail for protection. Soon afterwards they moved to Oxford, where Charles I
had fled with his court. Jones, Kathleen. A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Bloomsbury. 21 |
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