Behn, Aphra. The Works of Aphra Behn. Editor Todd, Janet, William Pickering, 1992, 7 Vols.
1: 299
Mary of Modena Queen of England
Standard Name: Mary of Modena,, Queen of England
Used Form: Mary Beatrice d'Este, also known as Mary of Modena
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Anne Finch | While she was still a maid of honour to Mary of Modena
, Anne Kingsmill (later AF
) began circulating her poems in manuscript: some political and religious pieces appeared in miscellanies in this decade... |
| Employer | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | Winifred succeeded her mother as a lady-in-waiting to Mary Beatrice of Modena
. While the Jacobite court-in-exile of St Germain was where she primarily worked, she became an expert too on the byzantine routine of... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Lucy Herbert | This was the outcome of the Meal Tub Plot, so called after the container in Elizabeth Cellier
's kitchen where evidence was planted. Lady Powis was then granted bail, and the charges against her... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | When the English court turned Catholic, Lady Powis served as lady-in-waiting to the queen, Mary of Modena
. She was a witness to the birth of the king and queen's baby son
, was appointed... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | |
| Literary Setting | Mary Boyle | |
| Occupation | Lady Lucy Herbert | While at St Germain, LLH
attended the court of Mary Beatrice of Modena
, but it does not appear that she held any official position there as her mother and sister did. Maxwell Stuart, Flora. Lady Nithsdale and the Jacobites. Traquair House, 1995. 21 |
| Occupation | Anne Killigrew | She became, along with Anne Kingsmill (later Anne Finch)
and Sarah Jennings (later Duchess of Marlborough)
, a Maid of Honour to Mary of Modena
(then Duchess of York). Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988. 299 |
| Occupation | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | Mary of Modena
had no position to give, though she wrote a letter of advice. Lady Nithsdale offered her services to a potential wife of James Edward
as soon as the existence of such a... |
| Occupation | Elizabeth Cellier | |
| Occupation | Anne Finch | |
| Textual Production | Agnes Strickland | Both sisters were indefatigable researchers. They took as their motto Facts, not Opinions qtd. in Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940. 62 |
| Textual Production | Aphra Behn | On the pregnancy of Mary of Modena
, the Stationers' Company
licensed AB
's A Congratulatory Poem to Her Most Sacred Majesty on the Universal Hopes of all Loyal Persons for a Prince of Wales. O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Garland, 1986. 129 |
| Textual Production | Anne Finch | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Barker | These royalist poems centre on the female figure of Mary of Modena
. Prescott, Sarah. “’Who now shall fill the vacant throne?’: Jane Barker and the Debt to Orinda”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Oxford, 5 Jan. 1998. |
Timeline
27 May 1682: Mary of Modena, wife of the future James...
National or international item
27 May 1682
Mary of Modena
, wife of the future James II
, arrived in England.
McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
21
10 June 1688: The son of Mary of Modena and James II was...
National or international item
10 June 1688
The son of Mary of Modena
and James II
was born; the date became one of annual importance to Jacobites.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
882
10 June 1688: The son of Mary of Modena and James II was...
National or international item
10 June 1688
The son of Mary of Modena
and James II
was born; the date became one of annual importance to Jacobites.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
882
February 1689: Mary of Modena wrote to Pope Innocent XI...
National or international item
February 1689
Mary of Modena
wrote to Pope Innocent XI
asking him to lead an alliance of the Catholic rulers of Europe to restore her husband
as rightful and Catholic ruler of Britain.
Finch, Anne. “Introduction / Editors’ Note”. The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems: A Critical Edition, edited by Barbara McGovern and Charles H. Hinnant, University of Georgia Press, 1998, p. xv - l.
xx
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