Oliver Cromwell

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...

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 )...

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.

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...

Before the printing of AT 's vain prophecies (as he saw them), Marchamont Needham wrote to Cromwell , saying they were desperate against your person, family, children, friends and the government, and mentioning...

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...

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 play takes place in the period immediately following Charles I 's defeat by Cromwell , when for a short time . . . anything seemed possible. Critics have recognised Churchill's debt to Christopher Hill

At Kinross, Anne Murray (later AH ) spent two days practising medicine. She tended wounded soldiers after the battle of Dunbar (a victory by Cromwell over the royalist side), dealing with wounds that...

LH said he behaved magnanimously to such people. He signed Charles I 's death warrant, but opposed Cromwell 's gradual assumption of quasi-royal powers. He was glad to return to private life.

AT , staying at an ordinary or tavern in Whitehall, London, for the trial of Vavasor Powell , fell into an eleven-day, twelve-night trance in which she prophesied against Cromwell .

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...

This was work in keeping with his family's political position. Attending Westminster School only a stone's throw from a whole succession of exciting and disturbing national events must surely have awakened Dryden's historical and political...