Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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Guy Fawkes
Standard Name: Fawkes, Guy
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | Her mother then fell ill; Caroline was persuaded that she was to blame and in early September, her parents and husband bore her off to Bessborough House in Kilkenny, Ireland. |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Ward | Her first five associates were Jane or Joanna Browne
(a cousin of the Babthorpe and Rookwood families), Susanna Rookwood
(sister of one of the Guy Fawkes
plotters), Catherine or Catharine Smith
, Winefrid Wigmore
(a... |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Tyler | To their eldest son his father
had written from his imprisonment in the Tower of London: Tom, you have ever from your infancy been given to be stubborn. qtd. in Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Thomas Howard, first Earl of Suffolk |
| Literary Setting | Pamela Hansford Johnson | It is set in the interwar years; its title derives from both the fires of Hell and those of Guy Fawkes
Night. The protagonist, fourteen-year-old Emma Sheldrake, watches a bonfire on the night she first... |
| politics | Agnes Wenman | Although married to a member of the Established Church, AW
was interrogated after Guy Fawkes
attempted to overthrow the government, as a suspected Catholic activist. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Textual Features | Sylvia Townsend Warner | The title story is based on SWT's childhood memories of her father. Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1989. 279 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Selina Bunbury | Alternating chapters follow the stories of both the royal family (who, with the members of parliament, were to be the targets of the explosion on 5 November 1605) and the conspirators. SB
depicts historical figures... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Antonia Fraser | This book manages almost as large a cast of characters as The Weaker Vessel—including major figures such as Guy Fawkes
, Thomas Winter
, and Robert (Robin) Catesby
; rulers such as King James |
Timeline
5 November 1605: A group of Catholic plotters, led by Guy...
National or international item
5 November 1605
A group of Catholic plotters, led by Guy Fawkes
, made an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament
with gunpowder.
Morgan, Kenneth O., editor. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford University Press, 1984.
607
Neill, Michael. “Glimpsed in the Glare”. London Revew of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 24, 17 Dec. 2015, pp. 39-41. 40
5 November 1709: Henry Sacheverell preached a notorious sermon...
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5 November 1709
Henry Sacheverell
preached a notorious sermon at St Paul's Cathedral challenging the 1688 settlement of the succession.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
216
Backscheider, Paula R. Daniel Defoe: His Life. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
264
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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