Oliver Cromwell

AC writes in many different metres (some unusual, a few somewhat uncertainly used). In a prose address to the Christian Reader she says she has achieved a peacefull temper and spirituall calmnesse. Her...

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

Though the poem, in heroic couplets, turns at the end to praise of virtue, its notion of indolence is more positive than that of James Thomson in The Castle of Indolence, 1748. In leisurely...

She later said that the resurrection in question was connected with the formation of Cromwell 's New Model Army in April 1645. This work is available via Early English Books Online, together with the...

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 )...

His later biographies include Sir Walter Scott, 1932, and Oliver Cromwell, 1934. His later essay collections include A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys, 1922 (which relates among other things the story...

George Fox later reported meeting HB in the Strand in London in about 1657, at a time when Cromwell was persecuting Quakers . She told him of her plan to seek out the future Charles II

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...