King James II

AF marked the death of Mary of Modena (widow of James II ), her former employer, with an elegy rntitled On the Death of the Queen.

This novel is available from Chawton House LibraryNovels Online at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The dedication is dated 1 March and the book was reviewed by July. An advertisement for AMM 's previous novel appears at the...

The title-page bears a quotation from a manuscript play. AMP 's To the Reader, dated at Esher in Surrey, April 1830, says she had written one volume of this book and planned the...

Based on the Marchmont Papers, this book criticised Fox's take on the reign of James II . Rose stated that as a close friend of the third Earl of Marchmont , he felt an obligation...

Some time after January 1817 SSW published, with her name, a chapbook version of Jane Porter 's The Pastor's Fire-Side. She used a much extended, highly descriptive title: The Pastor's Fireside; or, Memoirs of...

EP may have written a poem addressed to the Duke of York (the future James II ) a year or more after The Frolicks. It must have circulated in manuscript, since it was collected...

In the last decade of her life, JP published another twelve historical novels under this name: a thirteenth appeared in the year of her death, 1993. Some of these novels revisit ground or people covered...

Dundee began his distinguished military career as a scourge of the Covenanters . It was cut short at the battle of Killiecrankie where he was championing James II . His early death made him indelibly...

The broadside advises Monmouth , the Protestant claimant to succeed to the throne, in no uncertain terms to remember his illegitimate birth, re-awaken his loyalty, to scorn the mob, and to realise that the only...

Her letters typically discuss the political situation of the time, as well as her thoughts on the activities of courtiers and of her family members. The earliest of them reports on the king's health, the...

DSCS discusses the English court, and her opinions thereof, in detail in her letters to Halifax. The first one printed gives the names of officers posted to fight the Moors at the British fort of...

She boosts the Church of England , of course, but also urges William not to assume the throne, but to withdraw, limiting his own contribution to bringing pressure to bear on James II (his father...

The monarchical attitudes of these bishops who remained loyal to their oaths to James II were in tune with those of AS nearly two centuries later.

MAS pruned and updated the text (in its original form of a letter more than a hundred pages long addressed to My Reverend Mother on Christmas Eve, 1667—that is, to Agnès Artaud ). Schimmelpenninck felt...

AH handles her narrative (which survives only up to the year 1656) with skill. She employs literary reference when the ups and downs of her personal value at court put her in mind of texts...