Oliver Cromwell

Standard Name: Cromwell, Oliver
Used Form: Lord Protector

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politics John Dryden
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...
politics Anna Trapnel
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 .
Powell, a Welshman...
Publishing Emma Robinson
It was reprinted in 1853, translated into French in 1857, and reprinted at Philadelphia without a date as Whitehall; or, The Days and Times of Oliver Cromwell.
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Reception Mary Ferrar
The community aroused mixed reactions in its own highly partisan and divided age. An anonymous pamphlet, The Arminian Nunnery, 1641,
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turned in a largely hostile report which calls Nicholas Ferrarthe mouth for all...
Residence Edna Lyall
EL moved from Lincoln to Eastbourne in 1884
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co.
53
with her sister and her brother-in-law the Rev. Hampden Jameson . Their house in College Road, Eastbourne, was a picturesque gabled, red-tiled house, covered with...
Textual Features Theodora Benson
The tiny nuggets of information (often only a sentence or two) dispensed under Ideals, places, people, institutions, and (in the case of Ireland) Wrongs, Tenacity of Memory, and Oliver Cromwell, are rather...
Textual Features Antonia Fraser
AF says in her Author's Note that it occurred to her while she was working on Oliver Cromwell that women during the English Civil War would make a more interesting subject. She divides her book...
Textual Features Michelene Wandor
Her range of reference is wide: Milton , Cromwell , Virginia Woolf , Joan Baez , fairy tales, the Bible, and settings (as her publisher puts it) from Jerusalem to Hollywood, cafes to graveyards.
Textual Features Anna Maria Hall
The novel is set in seventeenth-century England, during the time of Cromwell's protectorate.
Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe.
145
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Cromwell , Lord Protector, appears as a character.
Hall, Anna Maria. The Buccaneer. R. Bentley.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
The Buccaneer, the son of a royalist clergyman and his young...
Textual Features Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
The story is set among the Puritans under Oliver Cromwell , and many of the characters bear names that convey the earnest desire of their parents that they should grow up to be rigidly virtuous.
Textual Features Hannah Mary Rathbone
Lady Willoughby , the supposed author of the diary, was an actual person (born into the well-known Cecil family), who died in the year 1661.
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The work gives evidence of painstaking research into the two...
Textual Features Lucille Iremonger
These books bring together two sets of teenage cousins, one from an English and one from a white Jamaican family. In The Young Traveller in the West Indies, the Bannisters show the Fulfords round...
Textual Features Mary Robinson
MR writes as a friend to the Revolution, but enters with strong emotion into the personal situation of the queen as the victim of scandal and prejudice. She cites Elizabeth I and Cromwell as examples...
Textual Production Margaret Fell
MF wrote her first two letters to Cromwell ; she followed them with a third and fourth in 1656 and 1657.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan.
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Textual Production Anna Trapnel
The title-page leaves no doubt of the political implications of her message. It reads Strange and Wonderful Newes from White-Hall; or, The Mighty Visions Proceeding from Mistris Anna Trapnel, to divers Collonels, Ladies, and Gentlewomen...

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1653: Cromwell's Civil Marriage Act was passed,...

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1653

Cromwell 's Civil Marriage Act was passed, which legislated the requirement of wedding banns.

29 April-16 December 1653: England and Wales were governed by the Nominated...

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29 April-16 December 1653

England and Wales were governed by the Nominated or Barebones Parliament (140 saints picked by Cromwell to replace the Rump Parliament, which he dissolved).

16 December 1653: Oliver Cromwell became the Lord Protector...

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16 December 1653

Oliver Cromwell became the Lord Protector of Great Britain and Ireland.

1655: The Commonwealth government under Cromwell...

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1655

The Commonwealth government under Cromwell clamped down on non-government-sanctioned periodicals.

October 1655: Manasseh ben Israel arrived in London to...

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October 1655

Manasseh ben Israel arrived in London to treat with Cromwell about the re-admission of the Jews to England.

27 November 1655: Cromwell issued an edict prohibiting Church...

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27 November 1655

Cromwell issued an edict prohibiting Church of England ministers from any preaching or teaching.

9 December 1655: Cromwell issued an edict legally permitting...

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9 December 1655

Cromwell issued an edict legally permitting Jewish resettlement in England. The Jews had been expelled in 1290, though individuals had now been living in England unofficially for more than a century.

9 July 1656: John Evelyn made a sight-seeing visit to...

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9 July 1656

John Evelyn made a sight-seeing visit to Quakers in prison at Ipswich, Suffolk; he thought them a melancholy proud sort of people, and exceedingly ignorant.

3 September 1658: Oliver Cromwell died and Richard Cromwell...

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3 September 1658

Oliver Cromwell died and Richard Cromwell became Lord Protector of Great Britain and Ireland.

22 November 1658: Cromwell the Protector had a funeral procession...

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22 November 1658

Cromwell the Protector had a funeral procession across London, lying in effigie in royal robes . . . like a king.

1659: John Hill of York published A Penny Post:...

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1659

John Hill of York published A Penny Post: or, A Vindication of the Liberty and Birthright of every Englishman.

25 April 1659: John Evelyn reported a wonderfull and suddaine...

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25 April 1659

John Evelyn reported a wonderfull and suddaine change in the face of the publique: discontent with Cromwell 's son Richard , and canvassing of other candidates for power.

January 1661: Fifth Monarchists (who expected the Second...

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January 1661

Fifth Monarchists (who expected the Second Coming and political rule of Christ, and had opposed the Cromwell ian government too) staged an uprising against the new king, Charles II .

30 January 1661: On the anniversary of Charles I's execution,...

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30 January 1661

On the anniversary of Charles I 's execution, the bodies of Cromwell and some close associates were draged out of their superbe tombs in Westminster Abbey.

12 June 1663: Samuel Pepys noted that it was now the fashion...

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12 June 1663

Samuel Pepys noted that it was now the fashion for ladies to hide their whole face with a vizard or mask throughout an evening at the theatre.

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