Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press, 1904.
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Cultural formation | Elizabeth Ashbridge | She left the Dublin cousin because she hated his Quaker
religion. Naturally vivacious, this teenaged widow found her cousin's gloomy sense of sorrow and conviction, Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press, 1904. 13-14 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | When the English court turned Catholic, Lady Powis served as lady-in-waiting to the queen, Mary of Modena
. She was a witness to the birth of the king and queen's baby son
, was appointed... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Lucy Herbert | This was the outcome of the Meal Tub Plot, so called after the container in Elizabeth Cellier
's kitchen where evidence was planted. Lady Powis was then granted bail, and the charges against her... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Barker | While there is no evidence that JB
was close to influential members of the court in exile, a number of her mother's relations were well established there. She made literary advances to many members of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | |
Occupation | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | Mary of Modena
had no position to give, though she wrote a letter of advice. Lady Nithsdale offered her services to a potential wife of James Edward
as soon as the existence of such a... |
politics | Lady Lucy Herbert | LLH
, like her parents, was a Jacobite and an activist in the cause. She looked on James Edward Stuart
as James III, rightful king of England and Scotland, and must have been delighted when... |
politics | Elizabeth Bury | EB
recorded that God had heard Prayer [not only hers], and answer'd signally, in defeating the French Invasion—that is, the fleet carrying the Pretender
which got as far as the Firth of Forth in Scotland. Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Editor Bury, Samuel, Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint, 1720. 120 |
politics | Mary Caesar | The government discovered a plot by Count Gyllenborg
(Swedish ambassador to Britain) and others for Charles XII
of Sweden to invade to restore James Edward Stuart
to the throne. Sedgwick, Romney, editor. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1715-1754. 1970, http://www.histparl.ac.uk/about/publications/1715-1754. Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741) |
politics | Mary Caesar | |
Publishing | Elizabeth Cellier | Lady Powis
, governess to the infant Prince of Wales
, brought the baby to the king
with Elizabeth Cellier
's Foundling Hospital petition in his hand. Lady Powis was author of a broadside Ballad... |
Textual Features | Jane Barker | |
Textual Production | Aphra Behn | Hopes were strained, for so far the queen's eight pregnancies had produced no child which survived. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997. 401 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Delaval | Though ED
never composed another substantial work, writing remained a significant element in her economically and politically active life. During the 1670s, the decade of her first marriage, she addressed several petitions to Charles II |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Lucy Herbert | Chapter one deals with the advantages and benefits of prayer: the means which God gives us to attain to our last end; and to that Sanctity, and Perfection he has design'd us. Herbert, Lady Lucy. Several Methods and Practises of Devotion. The Widow of Jonh [sic] de Cock, 1743. 1 |
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