Oliver Cromwell

In organising the Fund she was interested in promoting social cohesion among Quakers as well as relieving hardship.George Fox continued to frequent Swarthmoor, and at the time of the Restoration (May 1660) was...

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

It was reprinted in 1853, translated into French in 1857, and reprinted at Philadelphia without a date as Whitehall; or, The Days and Times of Oliver Cromwell.

The community aroused mixed reactions in its own highly partisan and divided age. An anonymous pamphlet, The Arminian Nunnery, 1641, turned in a largely hostile report which calls Nicholas Ferrarthe mouth for all...

EL moved from Lincoln to Eastbourne in 1884 with her sister and her brother-in-law the Rev. Hampden Jameson . Their house in College Road, Eastbourne, was a picturesque gabled, red-tiled house, covered with...

Her range of reference is wide: Milton , Cromwell , Virginia Woolf , Joan Baez , fairy tales, the Bible, and settings (as her publisher puts it) from Jerusalem to Hollywood, cafes to graveyards.

These books bring together two sets of teenage cousins, one from an English and one from a white Jamaican family. In The Young Traveller in the West Indies, the Bannisters show the Fulfords round...

MR writes as a friend to the Revolution, but enters with strong emotion into the personal situation of the queen as the victim of scandal and prejudice. She cites Elizabeth I and Cromwell as examples...

Lady Willoughby , the supposed author of the diary, was an actual person (born into the well-known Cecil family), who died in the year 1661. The work gives evidence of painstaking research into the two...

The tiny nuggets of information (often only a sentence or two) dispensed under Ideals, places, people, institutions, and (in the case of Ireland) Wrongs, Tenacity of Memory, and Oliver Cromwell, are rather...

The story is set among the Puritans under Oliver Cromwell , and many of the characters bear names that convey the earnest desire of their parents that they should grow up to be rigidly virtuous.

AF says in her Author's Note that it occurred to her while she was working on Oliver Cromwell that women during the English Civil War would make a more interesting subject. She divides her book...

The novel is set in seventeenth-century England, during the time of Cromwell's protectorate. Cromwell , Lord Protector, appears as a character. The Buccaneer, the son of a royalist clergyman and his young...

She had first approached Macmillan to publish the book, but they wanted the title changed and the last chapter revised. Hobbes refused, and approached Unwin's , which (on the advice of its reader, Edward Garnett

The parody To Mr Waller upon his panegirique to the Lord Protector is almost certainly by LH ; the ascription rests on Clarendon 's annotation.