Oliver Cromwell

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

Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...

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)...

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...

Volumes three and four cover the period of the Civil War, culminating in this volume with the execution of Charles I .CM is perhaps surprisingly respectful of Charles I's personal virtues; yet...

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 ...

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.

At some date during the English Civil War, Cromwell 's army laid waste the parish church of Woodbridge.