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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Kate O'Brien | |
Dedications | Mary Cary | She named three dedicatees of this volume, all eminent anti-monarchical women: Elizabeth Cromwell
(wife of Oliver
), Bridget Ireton
(Elizabeth's daughter, and wife of Henry Ireton
), and Margaret Rolle
(wife of Henry Rolle
)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Major | There were two fairly prominent contemporary Major families. One, living in Hampshire, included Dorothy Major, who married a son of Oliver Cromwell
. The other lived in Blackfriars Road, London. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988. 183 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Damaris Masham | Her mother, born Damaris Cradock, was a widow with several children from her first marriage (three sons and a daughter—who was also, confusingly, called Damaris) when she married DM
's father. From her second marriage... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Williams | JW
's ancestor Henry Williams
of Ysgafell in Montgomeryshire was a Baptist preacher and a member of the Welsh puritan Vavasor Powell
's Independent Church. In 1655 he signed Powell's Word for God, a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Cooper | Her mother, born Bridget Claypoole or Claypole
, was the only child of two second marriages: her father had formerly been married to one of Oliver Cromwell
's daughters. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under John Claypole |
Literary responses | Emma Robinson | The Athenæum's reviewer, Henry Fothergill Chorley
, wrote that after Mary Russell Mitford
's characterization of Cromwell
in her Charles the First, we know not who has conceived of the great General better... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Major | Joseph Caryl
, the Cromwell
government's official censor and perhaps EM
's minister, added a commendatory note to his licence to signify his approval of her views. Among her few modern critics, Patricia Demers
has... |
Literary responses | Anna Trapnel | Before the printing of AT
's vain prophecies qtd. in Trapnel, Anna. “Introduction”. The Cry of a Stone, edited by Hilary Hinds, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000, p. xiii - xlvii. xviii qtd. in Trapnel, Anna. “Introduction”. The Cry of a Stone, edited by Hilary Hinds, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000, p. xiii - xlvii. xvii |
Literary Setting | Caryl Churchill | The play takes place in the period immediately following Charles I
's defeat by Cromwell
, when for a short time . . . anything seemed possible. Churchill, Caryl. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire. Pluto Press, 1978. prelims |
Occupation | Anne Halkett | At Kinross, Anne Murray (later AH
) spent two days practising medicine. Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 3-7. 6 |
politics | Margaret Fell | In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994. 87 |
politics | Hester Biddle | George Fox
later reported meeting HB
in the Strand in London in about 1657, at a time when Cromwell
was persecuting Quakers
. She told him of her plan to seek out the future Charles II |
politics | Lucy Hutchinson | |
politics | Anna Trapnel | AT
, staying at an ordinary or tavern in Whitehall, London, for the trial of Vavasor Powell
, fell into an eleven-day, twelve-night trance in which she prophesied against Cromwell
. Powell, a Welshman... |
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