Bray, Anna Eliza. The Novels and Romances of Anna Eliza Bray. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845–1846, 10 vols.
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King Charles I
Standard Name: Charles I, King
Used Form: King Charles the First
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. |
| Literary Setting | Charlotte Charke | The Mercer is the tale of William Dennis in the reign of Charles I
, who marries money and becomes a silk mercer in London's Cheapside, but who then ruins his own wealth and... |
| Occupation | Judith Man | 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... |
| 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, 1989. 121 |
| Performance of text | Mary Russell Mitford | 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. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 116: 194 |
| politics | Alice Thornton | AT
later deplored the execution of Charles I
: Lett all true Christians mourne for the fall of this stately ceader. Thornton, Alice. The Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton. Editor Jackson, Charles, 1809 - 1882, Published for the Society by Andrews, 1875. 56 |
| politics | Ephelia | Ephelia was, from her poems, a Tory, a passionate supporter of the Stuart monarchy. In 1645 Mary, Duchess of Richmond, was advising Prince Rupert
by letter on his relations with Charles I
. Thumbprints of "Ephelia" (Lady Mary Villiers): The End of an Enigma in Restoration Attribution. 2005, http://www.ephelia.com/. |
| politics | Anne Halkett | She had his measurements taken and got a petticoat and a woman's waistcoat made for him (the tailor expressed astonishment at the measurements). She took him in her arms at meeting, dressed him, provided him... |
| politics | Sarah Dixon | SD
poem's On the 30th of January (the day kept annually sacred to the martyred Charles I
) declares her allegiance to royalist and high-church principles. She portrays Charles as a martyr and a Christian hero. Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013. 143-4 |
| politics | Lucy Hutchinson | As a member of the Council of State (instituted after the king
's death as chief executive body) John Hutchinson
found himself with power over his old opposites and enemies of . . . the... |
| politics | Elizabeth Melvill | 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... |
| politics | John Milton | 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... |
| politics | Lucy Hutchinson | |
| 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, 1979, p. v - xxi. xvi |
| 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. “The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley”. PMLA, Vol. 46 , No. 3, Sept. 1931, pp. 805-36. 803 |
Timeline
June to 11 November 1647: Charles I was held captive in his palace...
National or international item
June to 11 November 1647
Charles I
was held captive in his palace at Hampton Court by Cromwell
's armies.
Cannon, John, editor. The Oxford Companion to British History. Revised edition, Oxford University Press, 2002.
189-90
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
459
5 June 1647: Soldiers of the Parliamentary army took an...
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5 June 1647
Soldiers of the Parliamentary army took an engagement not to disband; using the captive king
as hostage, they began issuing manifestoes calling for army reform and army rule.
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
134
6 August 1647: Cromwell's New Model Army marched on London...
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6 August 1647
Cromwell
's New Model Army
marched on London to quell an attempted Presbyterian
counter-revolution.
Morrill, John. “The Stuarts (1603-1688)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 286-51.
323
Woolrych, Austin. “The Civil Wars 1640-1649”. Stuart England, edited by Blair Worden, Phaidon, 1986, pp. 93-119.
110-11
March 1648: This month saw the outbreak of the conflict...
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March 1648
This month saw the outbreak of the conflict variously known as the Second Civil War or the War Between the Three Kingdoms, which ended only with the death of the king
.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
533
27 January 1649: Ann or Anne Fairfax (wife of the former parliamentary...
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27 January 1649
Ann or Anne Fairfax
(wife of the former parliamentary commander Sir Thomas Fairfax
) made her second verbal intervention in the trial of Charles I
.
Nevitt, Marcus. “Elizabeth Poole Writes the Regicide”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
9
, No. 2, 2002, pp. 233-48. 233-4
30 January 1649: Charles I, called to trial on 19 January...
National or international item
30 January 1649
Charles I
, called to trial on 19 January and sentenced on 27 January, was executed. A Commonwealth was declared; but to many the king became a martyr.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
305
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
294
13 February 1649: Following the king's execution, Milton published...
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13 February 1649
Following the king
's execution, Milton
published The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, a pamphlet designed to enforce the general point that a tyrant may be lawfully got rid of.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
The pamphlet collector George Thomason
Between 14 and 17 October 1660: A group of those associated with the execution...
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Between 14 and 17 October 1660
A group of those associated with the execution of Charles I
(several of the almost sixty Regicides who in various official capacities had signed his death-warrant, and others) were executed by hanging.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
412
30 January 1661: On the anniversary of Charles I's execution,...
National or international item
30 January 1661
On the anniversary of Charles I
's execution, the bodies of Cromwell
and some close associates were draged out of their superbe tombs in Westminster Abbey.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
416
7 December 1666: More than a hundred Covenanters were found...
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7 December 1666
More than a hundred Covenanters
were found guilty of rebellion and sentenced to be hanged with particular brutality from the Mercat Cross in Edinburgh.
The Covenanters: The Fifty Years Struggle 1638-1688. http://www.sorbie.net/covenanters.htm.
By November 1754: David Hume published at Edinburgh the first...
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By November 1754
David Hume
published at Edinburgh the first volume of his History of Great Britain (called in most later editions The History of England).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2 (1756): 385-404
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
24 (1754): 533; 29 (1759): 133
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Between March 1844 and August 1845: The hugely prolific Alexandre Dumas published...
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Between March 1844 and August 1845
The hugely prolific Alexandre Dumas
published not only his best-known novel, The Three Musketeers, but also The Count of Monte-Cristo, Twenty Years After, and La Reine Margot.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Coward, David. “Having Fun”. London Review of Books, 17 Apr. 2003, pp. 17-18.
17-18
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