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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Kate O'Brien | |
Dedications | Mary Cary | She named three dedicatees of this volume, all eminent anti-monarchical women: Elizabeth Cromwell
(wife of Oliver
), Bridget Ireton
(Elizabeth's daughter, and wife of Henry Ireton
), and Margaret Rolle
(wife of Henry Rolle
)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Major | There were two fairly prominent contemporary Major families. One, living in Hampshire, included Dorothy Major, who married a son of Oliver Cromwell
. The other lived in Blackfriars Road, London. Greer, Germaine, Susan Hastings, Jeslyn Medoff, and Melinda Sansone, editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988. 183 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Damaris Masham | Her mother, born Damaris Cradock, was a widow with several children from her first marriage (three sons and a daughter—who was also, confusingly, called Damaris) when she married DM
's father. From her second marriage... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Williams | JW
's ancestor Henry Williams
of Ysgafell in Montgomeryshire was a Baptist preacher and a member of the Welsh puritan Vavasor Powell
's Independent Church. In 1655 he signed Powell's Word for God, a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Cooper | Her mother, born Bridget Claypoole or Claypole
, was the only child of two second marriages: her father had formerly been married to one of Oliver Cromwell
's daughters. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under John Claypole |
Literary responses | Anna Trapnel | Before the printing of AT
's vain prophecies Trapnel, Anna. “Introduction”. The Cry of a Stone, edited by Hilary Hinds, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000, p. xiii - xlvii. xviii Trapnel, Anna. “Introduction”. The Cry of a Stone, edited by Hilary Hinds, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000, p. xiii - xlvii. xvii |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Major | Joseph Caryl
, the Cromwell
government's official censor and perhaps EM
's minister, added a commendatory note to his licence to signify his approval of her views. Among her few modern critics, Patricia Demers
has... |
Literary responses | Emma Robinson | The Athenæum's reviewer, Henry Fothergill Chorley
, wrote that after Mary Russell Mitford
's characterization of Cromwell
in her Charles the First, we know not who has conceived of the great General better... |
Literary Setting | Caryl Churchill | The play takes place in the period immediately following Charles I
's defeat by Cromwell
, when for a short time . . . anything seemed possible. Churchill, Caryl. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire. Pluto Press, 1978. prelims |
Occupation | Anne Halkett | At Kinross, Anne Murray (later AH
) spent two days practising medicine. Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 3 - 7. 6 |
politics | Anna Trapnel | At this date, when religious rebirth was a political statement, AT
's conversion and her visions signified an interest in politics and a drive to concern herself, even obliquely, in shaping national events. After fasting... |
politics | Margaret Fell | In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994. 87 |
politics | Hester Biddle | George Fox
later reported meeting HB
in the Strand in London in about 1657, at a time when Cromwell
was persecuting Quakers
. She told him of her plan to seek out the future Charles II |
politics | Lucy Hutchinson |