Mary of Modena Queen of England

While she was still a maid of honour to Mary of Modena , Anne Kingsmill (later AF ) began circulating her poems in manuscript: some political and religious pieces appeared in miscellanies in this decade...

Winifred succeeded her mother as a lady-in-waiting to Mary Beatrice of Modena . While the Jacobite court-in-exile of St Germain was where she primarily worked, she became an expert too on the byzantine routine of...

This was the outcome of the Meal Tub Plot, so called after the container in Elizabeth Cellier 's kitchen where evidence was planted. Lady Powis was then granted bail, and the charges against her...

When the English court turned Catholic, Lady Powis served as lady-in-waiting to the queen, Mary of Modena . She was a witness to the birth of the king and queen's baby son , was appointed...

This (full title To Poet Bavius: Occasion'd by his Satyr He Writ in his Verses to the King , upon the Queen s being Deliver'd of a Son) ridicules the labouring Muse

MB here recounts the story, set during the final days of James II 's reign, of Mary Savile, a fictional maid of honour toMary of Modena , James's wife (whose actual maids of honour...

Mary of Modena had no position to give, though she wrote a letter of advice. Lady Nithsdale offered her services to a potential wife of James Edward as soon as the existence of such a...

EC was evidently consulted in her capacity as a midwife by James II on the failure of his wife, Mary of Modena , to bear a child. Cellier said the queen was fertile, and advised...

Anne Kingsmill (later AF ) became a maid of honour to Mary of Modena , wife of the future James II .

While at St Germain, LLH attended the court of Mary Beatrice of Modena , but it does not appear that she held any official position there as her mother and sister did.

She became, along with Anne Kingsmill (later Anne Finch) and Sarah Jennings (later Duchess of Marlborough) , a Maid of Honour to Mary of Modena (then Duchess of York).

On the pregnancy of Mary of Modena , the Stationers' Company licensed AB 's A Congratulatory Poem to Her Most Sacred Majesty on the Universal Hopes of all Loyal Persons for a Prince of Wales.

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.

Both sisters were indefatigable researchers. They took as their motto Facts, not Opinions (though they were more willing to editorialise than the motto might suggest). They lobbied politicians, pulling every possible string to secure...

These royalist poems centre on the female figure of Mary of Modena . Many refer to specific historical or military events, and lament what Barker sees as a time of misrule. Her language about her...