After months in Rotterdam hoping vainly for an invasion of England, Margaret Cavendish
(then Marchioness of Newcastle) and her husband
settled in the Rubenshuis in Antwerp, previously the house of Rubens
the painter.
Jones, Kathleen. A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Bloomsbury, 1988.
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Travel
Juliana Horatia Ewing
She spent the winter of 1862-63 staying with friends at Clyst St George, near Topsham in Devon.
Gatty, Horatia K. F. “Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books, 1885”. A Celebration of Women Writers, edited by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.
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Her earliest literary earnings paid for travel. On the proceeds of her first book she...
Timeline
30 March 1643: An altarpiece by Rubens in Henrietta Maria's...
Building item
30 March 1643
An altarpiece by Rubens
in Henrietta Maria
's Roman Catholic
chapel in Somerset House, London (his only depiction of Christ on the cross), was destroyed by iconoclasts.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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1824: The House of Commons voted to spend £60,000...
