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Barbara Palmer, Duchess of Cleveland
Standard Name: Cleveland, Barbara Palmer,,, Duchess of
Used Form: Barbara Palmer, Countess of Castlemaine
Used Form: Barbara Villiers
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Employer | Delarivier Manley | In effect, she worked for the duchess
as a humble companion. Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii. x |
| Friends, Associates | Delarivier Manley | For the next few months she took shelter with the former royal mistress the Duchess of Cleveland
(formerly Lady Castlemaine), to whom the daughters of Ann Fanshawe
had introduced her. Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii. x |
| Literary Setting | Jean Plaidy | The second novel, depicting the years of Charles's reign from the Restoration of 1660 to the Popish Plot of October 1678, concentrates on private affairs, and among those it concentrates on the struggle for power... |
| Literary Setting | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | EIS
is nostalgic about the past here, but also somewhat confused. During her chosen period Rebecca and her contemporaries bore no resemblance to the young women of the present century, for they neither despised nor... |
| Residence | Iris Tree | IT
's family moved to Walpole House in Chiswick Mall. Charles II
's mistress Barbara, Lady Castlemaine
(patron of Delarivier Manley
) had lived in this house for some years before her death in... |
| Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | This oriental tragedy, set in an exotically-imagined east, opposes a sizzlingly sexual female villain, Homais (played by Elizabeth Barry
), and a model, patient, suffering but excessive heroine, Princess Selima (played by Anne Bracegirdle |
Timeline
21 May 1662
Charles II
married Catherine of Braganza
(daughter of the king of Portugal) in two ceremonies: one secret and Catholic, one Anglican.