King Charles I

CM published volume five of her History of England through Edward and Charles Dilly , with a subtitle that reads From the Death of Charles I to the Restoration of Charles II .

Volumes three and four cover the period of the Civil War, culminating in this volume with the execution of Charles I .CM is perhaps surprisingly respectful of Charles I's personal virtues; yet...

The title-page bears a quotation from Shakespeare ; the dedication argues that the rebel Monmouth was wrong but deserving of pity. The story traces the fate of a family named Bruce; it opens with a...

BM wrote elegies on the deaths of two children of Lady Huntingdon . Her Latin elegy for Henry, Lord Hastings (grandson of Lady Eleanor Douglas , who died on 24 June 1649), was never printed...

BM was tutress (that is, a female tutor, not a mere governess) to Princess Elizabeth , youngest daughter of Charles I .

It seems that she herself may have held some position as official attendant on the two daughters of Thomas Wentworth, Lord Strafford , as well as doing lessons with them. Strafford, recently ennobled by his...

Her mother, born Damaris Cradock, was a widow with several children from her first marriage (three sons and a daughter—who was also, confusingly, called Damaris) when she married DM 's father. From her second marriage...

EM evidently wielded some influence in the struggle between the monarchy and its Scottish subjects, which re-ignited in April 1637 with resistance to Charles I 's attempt to impose the Scottish Prayer Book on them...

On the Restoration of Charles IIJM (who had unmistakably written to blacken the reputation of Charles I as a ruler, as well as against tyrants, that is unjust rulers, in general) felt himself quite...

MRM 's Charles the First , an Historical Tragedy, in five acts was performed at the Victoria Theatre in south London, after running into censorship trouble.

Oman relates her subject's public engagements as an infant (attending her mother's coronation, sprinkling holy water on her father's corpse); her departure from her native country, with absolutely no knowledge of the English language, to...

KP 's poems range over every degree of a scale reaching from expressions of intense personal feeling to formal comment on public affairs. She wrote on the execution of Charles I , the Restoration of...

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...

DP 's continuing admiration for and loyalty to Elizabeth (like that of Anne Bradstreet a few years later) seems to reflect proto-feminist attitudes; but it may be angled chiefly at the current political situation: in...

LHP composed the earliest poems in her volume tied to a date more specific than a year: the imprisonment of Charles I at Holmby House in Northamptonshire.