Sarah, Lady Piers,. George for Britain. A Poem. Bernard Lintott.
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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... |
Textual Production | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | |
Textual Features | Elinor James | James's strong admonitory style has much in common with that of religious prophets. She is equally ready to cross swords with Quakers and Dissenters on the one hand and Catholics on the other, to venerate... |
Textual Features | Sarah, Lady Piers | But she moves on from celebration to warning: the human race is fallen, and a ruler needs to guard against ambition (This second Paradise, oh hazard not), Sarah, Lady Piers,. George for Britain. A Poem. Bernard Lintott. 12 |
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... |
Textual Features | Diana Primrose | 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... |
Textual Features | Anne Docwra | In her effort to enlighten those whose job it was to apply legal sanctions against Dissenters in Cambridge, AD
calls, in effect, for reform of local government. She appeals to history (the Civil War, still... |
Textual Features | Emma Robinson | The story is set during the English Civil War, so the Birmingham that it depicts is a pre-industrial country town, yet the character Tubal Bromycham, descendant of the lords of the manor of Birmingham in... |
Textual Features | Lady Eleanor Douglas | This work anagramatises Eleanor Audelie as Reveale O Daniel and Eleanor Davies as A Snare O Devil. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 1, 6 |
Textual Features | Katherine Chidley | Against a background of Charles I
's continuing war against Scotland (despite the signing of the Solemn League and Covenant in September 1643) in the attempt to impose Episcopacy in place of Presbyterianism, KC
argues... |
Textual Features | Ethel Sidgwick | Hatchways is one of ES
's more humorous novels, since much is made of a foreign visitor's response to English culture and his desire to know more about what he takes to be its representatives.... |
Residence | Margaret Cavendish | The queen had left Oxford, pregnant, in April, attended on her first day's journey by her husband
(whom she was never to see again) and her sons Charles and James. At Exeter she gave... |
Reception | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
's Amsterdam publications (one of which was believed to threaten the king
's life) were publicly burned. Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press. 64-6 |
Reception | Lady Eleanor Douglas | The burning was ordered by Archbishop Laud
and the Court of High Commission
, in spite of support for LED
from Charles I
's sister, Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia
. LED
was sentenced to imprisonment... |
Publishing | Ephelia | The initial letter H (Hail Mighty Prince!) in the 1679 reprint is rendered by a woodcut ornament or factotum with portraits of two crowned figures, one of each sex, with the royal rose... |
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