King Charles II

The mysterious poet Ephelia first reached public notice when she produced (besides an anonymous verse eulogy addressed to Charles II on the Popish Plot) a play, The Pair-Royal of Coxcombs, from which only...

While working on this book (as once before while working on Charles II ), AF found that a helpful exercise in optical research was to pack herself physically into priest-holes, the surviving, tiny, secret hiding...

EJ wrote a play as a vehicle for her friend Baliol Holloway , in which he collaborated with her, supplying the theatrical expertise and especially his sense of stage timing. He played Charles II in...

Roger L'Estrange , recently appointed Royal Licenser, approved the 2-column broadsideeulogyA Poem to His Sacred Majesty , on the Plot, which was printed as Written by a Gentlewoman: that is, by Ephelia .

KP 's poems range over every degree of a scale reaching from expressions of intense personal feeling to formal comment on public affairs. She wrote on the execution of Charles I , the Restoration of...

Other events follow the ending of the inset tale. Dr Scot is involved in a hush-hush mission with General Monck , facilitating the Restoration of Charles II . The story cannot end until the title...

Its topic was the political posturing of Charles 's illegitimate son Monmouth , Protestant claimant to the succession.

Of the various writing women connected with Henrietta Maria, CO mentions Margaret Cavendish as a serious-minded girl of literary aspirations, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe , merely as an awed reporter of the good looks...

The prologue stresses the author's gender (A Womans Pen presents you with a Play), and jokes about her presumed nervousness and probable madness. In the play Marcelia loves Lotharicus. Her cousin Melynet...

The highly involved plot of this novel brought together a number of high-profile historical London figures to surround the hero and heroine of its love-story: the Merry Monarch himself, his lower-class mistress Nell Gwyn ...

Richard Keigwin, a Cornishman, was a naval officer with the East India Company and had a distinguished record when, together with other soldiers who had not been paid, he led a local rebellion against the...

In November 1670 (after long resisting what she took to be the voice of God bidding her to do this) ES made her one-hundred-mile walk to London to deliver a testimony to King Charles .

In May the year after her marriage, the new Lady Fanshawe travelled from Oxford to Bristol to rejoin her husband, who was there with the court of the future Charles II . Next year they...

In summer 1663 MF made a thousand-mile journey around the west (from Bristol through Somerset, Devon, and Dorset, then north and through Yorkshire, Northumberland, and Westmorland); five years later...

Although she had written permission from the king to buy land, and although she was at least sixty years old, EH was seized in Boston, stripped to the waist (despite the snow), tied to...