Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucy Hutchinson | 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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | J. S. Anna Liddiard | 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)... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edna Lyall | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catharine Macaulay | Volumes three and four cover the period of the Civil War, culminating in this volume with the execution of Charles I
. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 26, 33 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catharine Macaulay | 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
... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eglinton Wallace | 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 (She also uses quotations from her own unpublished tragedy.) Wallace, Eglinton. Letter from Lady Wallace to Capt. William Wallace. J. Debrett. 62 |
Travel | Susanna Hopton | |
Violence | Elizabeth Warren | At some date during the English Civil War, Cromwell
's army
laid waste the parish church of Woodbridge. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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