Oliver Cromwell

Standard Name: Cromwell, Oliver
Used Form: Lord Protector

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catharine Macaulay
Volumes three and four cover the period of the Civil War, culminating in this volume with the execution of Charles I .
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
26, 33
CM is perhaps surprisingly respectful of Charles I's personal virtues; yet...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catharine Macaulay
In a history largely dedicated to exposing the shortcomings in British monarchical government, the volume on the Interregnum held a key position. CM clearly expressed her judicial though not unmixed personal admiration of Cromwell ...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Dorothea Celesia
Though the poem, in heroic couplets, turns at the end to praise of virtue, its notion of indolence is more positive than that of James Thomson in The Castle of Indolence, 1748. In leisurely...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Michelene Wandor
It proclaims: this is the story of two people // this is the story of two peoples // and one God / your God or mine?
Wandor, Michelene. The Music of the Prophets. Arc Publications, 2006.
34
In tracing the story to before the Act...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text An Collins
AC writes in many different metres (some unusual, a few somewhat uncertainly used). In a prose address to the Christian Reader
Collins, An. Divine Songs and Meditacions. Editor Stewart, Stanley N., William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1961.
1
she says she has achieved a peacefull temper and spirituall calmnesse.
Collins, An. Divine Songs and Meditacions. Editor Stewart, Stanley N., William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1961.
2
Her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eglinton Wallace
She recommends the study of history, and her moral exhortation leans heavily on anecdotal, historical examples. (She also uses quotations from her own unpublished tragedy.)
Wallace, Eglinton. Letter from Lady Wallace to Capt. William Wallace. J. Debrett, 1792.
62
She cites Queen Elizabeth (among many others) as a...
Travel Susanna Hopton
While Oliver Cromwell and his son ruled England, SH 's husband spent a good deal of time abroad (at Bruges, Rotterdam, Antwerp, and Paris). It is not clear whether his wife accompanied him.
Smith, Julia J. “Susanna Hopton: A Biographical Account”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
38
, June 1991, pp. 165-72.
170
Violence Elizabeth Warren
At some date during the English Civil War, Cromwell 's army laid waste the parish church of Woodbridge.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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