Oliver Cromwell

In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship.George Fox continued to frequent Swarthmoor, and at the time of the Restoration (May 1660) was...

MF seems to have published three tracts in 1656, anonymously or with her initials, calling for the conversion of the Jews to Christianity. She did so in response to Cromwell 's edict re-admitting the Jews...

The community aroused mixed reactions in its own highly partisan and divided age. An anonymous pamphlet, The Arminian Nunnery, 1641, turned in a largely hostile report which calls Nicholas Ferrarthe mouth for all...

AF published her second historical biography, which she called Cromwell : Our Chief of Men, from a poem in praise of Cromwell by Andrew Marvell .

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...

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...

The novel is set in seventeenth-century England, during the time of Cromwell's protectorate. Cromwell , Lord Protector, appears as a character. The Buccaneer, the son of a royalist clergyman and his young...

She had first approached Macmillan to publish the book, but they wanted the title changed and the last chapter revised. Hobbes refused, and approached Unwin's , which (on the advice of its reader, Edward Garnett

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

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.

The parody To Mr Waller upon his panegirique to the Lord Protector is almost certainly by LH ; the ascription rests on Clarendon 's annotation.

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...

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)...

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).