Sedgwick, Romney, editor. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1715-1754. 1970, http://www.histparl.ac.uk/about/publications/1715-1754.
Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741)
Thomas Wentworth first Earl of Strafford
Standard Name: Strafford, Thomas Wentworth,,, first Earl of
Used Form: Thomas Wentworth, Lord Strafford
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Judith Man | The title-page says she translated from the French: that is, from Nicolas Coeffeteau
's shortened version of the Argenis. She must have translated quickly (following Coeffeteau closely), since she says she read him around... |
| Employer | Judith Man | It seems that she herself may have held some position as official attendant on the two daughters of Thomas Wentworth, Lord Strafford
, as well as doing lessons with them. Strafford, recently ennobled by his... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Caesar | His great-great-father, Cesare Adelmare
, had migrated from Italy to England and become physician to Mary Tudor
and Elizabeth I
. |
| Textual Features | Lettice Cooper | Cooper's eight lives form a more varied selection than those of her companion volumes, stretching from the Earl of Strafford
and Blind Jack Metcalf
of Knaresborough via Charlotte Brontë
and Sir Titus Salt
(manufacturer, philanthropist... |
| Textual Production | Mary Caesar | |
| Textual Production | Emily Hickey | With the collaboration of Robert Browning
, EH
produced a new edition of his Strafford
, An Historical Tragedy, supplying notes and a preface. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Caesar | Her own meeting with the monarchy in the person of Queen Anne
is handled with hyperbole: it was as Impossible for me Even to Attempt the Beauties of that Excellent Queens Mind, as for Kneller |
| Travel | Alice Thornton | She places this event in 1632, but it was in 1634 that her father accompanied Thomas Wentworth, later Earl of Strafford
(a distant relation), on his posting there as Lord Deputy. Wandesford succeeded Wentworth in... |
Timeline
12 May 1641: Charles I's favourite, the Earl of Strafford,...
National or international item
12 May 1641
Charles I
's favourite, the Earl of Strafford
, was executed on Tower Hill, London.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
17
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
100
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
89, 117
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