Pearson, Susanna. The Medallion. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794, 3 vols.
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King Charles II
Standard Name: Charles II, King
Used Form: Charles the Second
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary Setting | Anna Kingsford | Nearly all the stories are historical fictions, set variously in the time of Plato
(365 BC), the reign of Marcus Aurelius
(179 AD), and that of Charles II
. Their settings range from ancient Greece... |
| Literary Setting | Julia Stretton | Fan-fan is Patty's first heroine. After one or two more she explains how it happens that she has written all these papers. That is to say, how Robert and I did, for of course I... |
| Literary Setting | Jeanette Winterson | The novel is primarily set in seventeenth-century London during the reign of Charles II
, but it also features episodes in past, present, and future time. The text is divided by a section containing a... |
| Literary Setting | Anna Steele | The novel begins with the Lisle family taking up residence at the ill-fated house of Gardenhurst, an estate that had been gambled away by its young heir during the reign of Charles II
, and... |
| Literary Setting | Sarah Pearson | An introductory address To the Reviewers urges them (with the trembling deemed appropriate for a woman writer) not to read the book in the morning but in the period of good humour after dinner. |
| Literary Setting | Penelope Aubin | In her preface PA
claims that but for her publisher's advice to study the market, she would at this stage have chosen to write something more serious and learned, Aubin, Penelope. A Collection of Entertaining Histories and Novels. D. Midwinter, 1739, 3 vols. 146 |
| Literary Setting | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | EIS
is nostalgic about the past here, but also somewhat confused. During her chosen period Rebecca and her contemporaries bore no resemblance to the young women of the present century, for they neither despised nor... |
| Literary Setting | Sarah Green | It opens in France and England during what was in England the interregnum period, and moves onwards into the reign of Charles II
. The heroine writes her story retrospectively in a letter to a... |
| Literary Setting | Delarivier Manley | Queen Zarah purports to be translated, not from French but from Italian. In it England is Albigion. The critical preface is in fact a translation of part of Morvan de Bellegarde
's Lettres curieuses... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Antonia Fraser | During the hot summer of 1976, she says, she was bogged down in her work on a biography of Charles II
, so she turned aside and wrote this story in six weeks. It was... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Catharine Macaulay | She was apparently well advanced with volume 6 in October 1773, before she moved to Bath, though it did not reach the public till 1781. It and its companion volume, on the reign of... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | 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 |
| Occupation | Elizabeth Delaval | At not yet fourteen, Lady Elizabeth Livingston (later Delaval)
, was appointed one of the maids of the privy chamber to Charles II
's newly-married wife, Catherine of Braganza
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| politics | Margaret Fell | MF
, on her first visit to London, presented the earliest formal Quaker
peace testimony to Charles II
, whom she went on to visit several times more. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994. 136-7 Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992. 220 |
| politics | Elizabeth Hooton | EH
went to Whitehall Palace in London and argued with the king
. Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992. 128 and n4 |
Timeline
November 1681: John Dryden published his political satire...
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November 1681
John Dryden
published his political satire Absalom and Achitophel, at Charles II
's personal suggestion, just a week before the first Earl of Shaftesbury
's trial for treason.
Sherburn, George, and Donald F. Bond. The Restoration and Eighteenth Century. 2nd ed., Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
725-6
22 March 1683: A fire at the racing centre of Newmarket...
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22 March 1683
A fire at the racing centre of Newmarket preserved the lives of Charles II
and his brother
; by leaving early for London they avoided a planned assassination.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
300-1
13 July 1683: William, Lord Russell (husband of the letter-writer...
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13 July 1683
William, Lord Russell
(husband of the letter-writer Lady Rachel
), stood trial for High Treason, accused of planning to assassinate the king
in an alleged Protestant Plot.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
747-8
30 January 1685: John Evelyn observed Charles II, a week before...
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30 January 1685
John Evelyn
observed Charles II
, a week before he died, sitting and toying with three of his mistresses, listening to a french boy singing love songs, while courtiers played basset (a card game) for...
6 February 1685: King Charles II died and his brother James...
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6 February 1685
King Charles II
died and his brother James II
(who was also James VII of Scotland) assumed the throne.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
426
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
44
Messenger, Ann. Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry. AMS Press, 2001.
99
6 July 1685: The Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion, aimed at...
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6 July 1685
The Duke of Monmouth
's Rebellion, aimed at getting possession of the throne, ended in defeat at Sedgemoor in Somerset, with much loss of life.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
312
February 1689 to October 1791: The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between...
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February 1689 to October 1791
The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between supporters of the deposed James II
(who landed at Kinsale on 12 March 1689 with substantial French forces) and supporters of William of Orange
(who had assumed...
April 1698: Jeremy Collier published his Short View of...
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April 1698
Jeremy Collier
published his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, a book in heavy-handed pamphlet style with exaggerated typography.
Hume, Robert D. “Jeremy Collier and the Future of the London Theatre in 1698”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford, 3 Jan. 1998.
1702-1704: The History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde,...
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1702-1704
The History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
, was posthumously published.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
8 March 1702: King William III died and Queen Anne assumed...
National or international item
8 March 1702
King William III
died and Queen Anne
assumed the throne; she was crowned on 23 April, which was Charles II
's coronation day as well as St George's Day.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
45
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
47
Miles, Peter. “’Humphry Clinker’: the politics of correspondence”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 167-82. 167
Between March 1844 and August 1845: The hugely prolific Alexandre Dumas published...
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Between March 1844 and August 1845
The hugely prolific Alexandre Dumas
published not only his best-known novel, The Three Musketeers, but also The Count of Monte-Cristo, Twenty Years After, and La Reine Margot.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Coward, David. “Having Fun”. London Review of Books, 17 Apr. 2003, pp. 17-18.
17-18
Mid-March 2009: The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, a home for British...
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Mid-March 2009
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
, a home for British Army
veterans founded by Charles II
in 1682, admitted its two first female pensioners, Dorothy Hughes
and Winifred Phillips
, both in their eighties.
Bates, Stephen. “Changing Chelsea. It only took 300 years”. Guardian Weekly, 20 Mar. 2009, p. 16.
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