King William III

Her offence was not only This Being Your Majesty 's Birth-Day (which she had written and printed as well as selling) but any of one of at least eight broadsides this year condemning William and...

Ancestors bearing the same name as her father had first bought the Blarney Castle in County Cork estate in 1688 (after Donogh McCarthy, fourth Earl of Clancarthy , had forfeited it for supporting James II

During the reign of James II , Elizabeth Berkeley and her husband lived abroad at her persuasion, near the court of William of Orange (the future William III of England) at The Hague in the...

James's strong admonitory style has much in common with that of religious prophets. She is equally ready to cross swords with Quakers and Dissenters on the one hand and Catholics on the other, to venerate...

The volume nicely mixes the personal and political. SF shows daring in expressions of love and of refusal to accept conventional restraints of all kinds. She reprints all four of her poems on Dryden 's...

The tendency of the story is anti-Catholic, but criticism is also levelled against the king 's favourites.

The title-page of the first of these explains that it is laid down in a plain, and easie method, fitted to the understanding of the meanest reader. In it MM writes, God bless King William

The book is headed with romantic lines from Thomas Davies [sic] about successive migrants and visitors to Ireland, from the brown Phoenician to the iron Lords of Normandy. The next epigraph comes from Burns

She treats there the atrocities suffered by her Protestant Huguenot ancestors in France in the seventeenth century, and the part played by her family in British history as supporters of William III .

In the society that Morgan depicts, the Irish Catholic gentry are mostly absent, scattered in European exile. The peasantry, dirt-poor but generous-hearted, include Tim O'Leary, schoolmaster of a hedge school, scholar and expert in Irish...

This novel is set in France, England, and Ireland. The action occurs in the seventeenth century as a Huguenot girl escapes oppression in France by fleeing to England and then Ireland...

MF composed one of the last of her writings included in her collected works: To King William (personally delivered to the king by Susan Ingram ); the others were To Edmund Waller, and An...

Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland (the latter, as usual, not credited on the title page) turned to a more esoteric subject in their The Lives of the Seven Bishops Committed to the Tower in 1688...

After James II had fled the country in 1688, AB received a flattering invitation from Gilbert Burnet (who in 1682 had tried to divide her from Anne Wharton on moral grounds) to welcome the new...

JW called people and monarch to repentance in a fifteen-page pamphlet, The Humble Address of the Widow Whitrowe to King William.