| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Elisabeth Wast | EW
was a Scotswoman of the lower classes who became a godly, fervent Presbyterian
, Covenanter
and anti-Episcopalian. She writes that for some years she satisfied my self with the Pharisees Religion, until she... |
| Dedications | M. Marsin | Two Sorts of Latter Days is dedicated to the king
. Burns, William E. “’By Him the Women will be delivered from that Bondage, which some has found intolerable’: M. Marsin, English Millenarian Feminist”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol. 1 , 2001, pp. 19-38. 21 |
| Dedications | Alicia D'Anvers | ADA
's first published work, A Poem upon His Sacred Majesty
, His Voyage to Holland, was licensed for publication; it appeared by January 1691, dedicated to Queen Mary
. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988. 376 |
| Dedications | M. Marsin | The full title goes on for an extended paragraph. This tract was dedicated to King William
. Burns, William E. “’By Him the Women will be delivered from that Bondage, which some has found intolerable’: M. Marsin, English Millenarian Feminist”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol. 1 , 2001, pp. 19-38. 21 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Grisell Murray | George was part of William of Orange
's 1689 expedition to claim the throne of England, which was almost shipwrecked on the way. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under George Baillie |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Brilliana Lady Harley | Lady Harley tried but failed to get Edward elected to parliament at the age of eighteen. Later he held the seat for Hereford. He commanded a troop of horse in the parliamentary army, and was... |
| Friends, Associates | Catharine Colace Ross | CCR
offered support and concern to Thomas Hog
(a minister near Auldearn on the Moray Firth, who ended up as a royal chaplain to King William
) while he was being persecuted for his... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | Once again reviewers (as quoted at the back of The Matrimonial Lottery) were delighted with these [c]lever studies of Irish life and character. The Athenæum praised especially those stories which reflected first-hand knowledge (with... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | Walpole
thought CM
's principles sounder and more securely settled than Burke's, while Burke
(coining the term republican Virago) judged her the ablest among his opponents. qtd. in Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992. 173 Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992. 74 |
| Literary Setting | Ouida | The title piece is set during the Glorious Revolution and begins just before James II
is forced from the throne by William of Orange
. The story's characters naturally take the romantic side: as Jacobites... |
| Literary Setting | Edna Lyall | The story revolves around Jacobite plots and persecution of Quakers
in the period when Queen Mary II
was Regent for her husband, William
, during his absences abroad. It introduces actual characters like the former... |
| Literary Setting | Emma Robinson | This was set in the days when the Dutch Protestants in the Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium and part of northern France), led by William of Orange
(that is, William the Silent, 1533-84), rebelled... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Sarah Butler | After the death of King William
in March 1702 and the termination of a pension paid by him to the woman who may possibly have been SB
the future novelist, she wrote two petitions from... |
| Occupation | Dorothy Osborne | DO
also visited Brussels and the Hague, for the purpose of diplomatic negotiation on the affairs of the royal family. She was instrumental in arranging the marriage of William
and Mary. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
| politics | Joan Whitrow |
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