Oliver Cromwell

At some date during the English Civil War, Cromwell 's army laid waste the parish church of Woodbridge.

While Oliver Cromwell and his son ruled England, SH 's husband spent a good deal of time abroad (at Bruges, Rotterdam, Antwerp, and Paris). It is not clear whether his wife accompanied him.

This satirical eulogy uses the method of line-by-line contradiction of Waller 's poem in the manner used by Lady Mary Wroth in Railing Rimes Returned upon the Author about thirty years before. It skewers Cromwell

The first poem in the volume, The Wreath of Fame, comments on her own daring in aiming for this wreath. Her other topics are the rage of Napoleon (the Man of Slaughter)...

Quotations about sympathy on the title-page come from George Henry Lewes (in his life of Goethe) and from Arnold Toynbee . EL 's earliest heroine, then Espérance de Mabillon, makes a cameo appearance with her...

Volumes three and four cover the period of the Civil War, culminating in this volume with the execution of Charles I .CM is perhaps surprisingly respectful of Charles I's personal virtues; yet...

In a history largely dedicated to exposing the shortcomings in British monarchical government, the volume on the Interregnum held a key position. CM clearly expressed her judicial though not unmixed personal admiration of Cromwell ...

She recommends the study of history, and her moral exhortation leans heavily on anecdotal, historical examples. (She also uses quotations from her own unpublished tragedy.) She cites Queen Elizabeth (among many others) as a...

It proclaims: this is the story of two people // this is the story of two peoples // and one God / your God or mine? In tracing the story to before the Act...

Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...

Though the poem, in heroic couplets, turns at the end to praise of virtue, its notion of indolence is more positive than that of James Thomson in The Castle of Indolence, 1748. In leisurely...

AC writes in many different metres (some unusual, a few somewhat uncertainly used). In a prose address to the Christian Reader she says she has achieved a peacefull temper and spirituall calmnesse. Her...

LED addressed Oliver Cromwell in The Excommunication out of Paradice.

Sutcliff called it an outside job, written in response to a complaint by her mother (a strong admirer of Oliver Cromwell ) about all the fictional representations of handsome, charming Cavaliers and boorish, unmannerly...

NL set the first part of her historical novel Scent of Cloves in the Ireland of 1649-1657: the years of commonwealth and Cromwell ian rule (marked by massacres in Ireland at the beginning of this period).