Sedgwick, Romney, editor. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1715-1754. 1970, http://www.histparl.ac.uk/about/publications/1715-1754.
Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741)
Charles XII King of Sweden
Standard Name: Charles XII,, King of Sweden
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary Setting | Eliza Haywood | EH
's preface to this epistolary novel presents herself as the (plural) Editors of actual letters. Her hero's name (Colonel Horatio M——s or Manners) and descent (from the late Duke of R—l—d) tie him and... |
| politics | Mary Caesar | The government discovered a plot by Count Gyllenborg
(Swedish ambassador to Britain) and others for Charles XII
of Sweden to invade to restore James Edward Stuart
to the throne. |
| Textual Features | Anne Finch | In this poem, AF
thanks Lord Carteret
for sending her a miniature of Charles XII of Sweden
. 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. xliv |
| Textual Production | Sarah Austin | |
| Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | SC
published An Epistle to the King of Sweden
, from a Lady of Great-Britain, addressing the bellicose monarch who was now plotting invasion of England. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952. 219 Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols. C93 Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot, 3 vols. 3 (no. 11): 52 |
| Textual Production | Mary Davys | MD
may have written An Answer from the King of Sweden
to the British Lady's Epistle, in response to a poem by Susanna Centlivre
. Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlix. xx |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | As the title implies, this was written on the model of Anna Letitia Barbauld
's Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, though it also rebukes what AG
would have seen as Barbauld's defeatism and failure of... |
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22 June 1941: Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union (named...
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22 June 1941
Hitler
's invasion of the Soviet Union (named Operation Barbarossa, and in contravention of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of 23 August 1939) began with a surprise attack at dawn which destroyed a thousand Soviet planes...
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