Oliver Cromwell

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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 )...

Though KOB 's surname was an ancient name of a royal house in Ireland, she was born into an often-forgotten segment of nineteenth-century society: the Irish Catholic middle class. She calls her Irishness my accidental...