Plowden Women All on Fire

The Women of the English Civil War
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-7524-6724-5
Verlag: The History Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Using personal accounts from both Royalist and Parliamentarian supporters to reveal the untold story of the women of the English Civil War, Alison Plowden illustrates how the conflict affected the lives of women and how they coped with unfamiliar responsibilities. Some displayed a courage so far above their sex as to suprise and disconcert their men. The Royalists included Queen Henrietta, who went abroad to raise money for the cause, and Mary Bankes who held Corfe Castle for the king with her daughters, heaving stones and hot embers over the battlements at the attacking Roundheads. On the opposing side, Lady Brillia Harley guarded Brampton Bryan Castle in Herefordshire against the Royalists and Anne Fairfax, wife of Cromwell's northern general, who was taken prisoner by the Duke of Newcastle's troops after Adwalton Moor. This is a fascinating look at the little reported, yet valient actions, of the women caught up in this tumultuous age.

The late ALISON PLOWDEN worked at the BBC as a script editor in Features and Drama, before leaving to work as a full-time writer. She specialised in the Tudor and Stuart periods and had numerous books published including Henrietta Maria, The House of Tudor, Two Queens in One Isle and Elizabeth I.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Plowden, Alison

Leseproben

Chronology of Events

1640

3 November

Long Parliament meets

1641

22 March

Trial of the Earl of Strafford opens in Westminster Hall

2 May

Wedding of Princess Mary and Prince William of Orange

3 May

Parliamentary Committee set up to investigate so-called Army Plot

10 May

The king consents to Act of Attainder against Strafford

12 May

Execution of Strafford

10 August

The king goes to Scotland

23 October

Rebellion breaks out in Ireland

25 November

The king welcomed in the City on his return from Scotland

1642

4 January

Attempted arrest of the Five Members

10 January

The king and queen leave Whitehall for Hampton Court

23 February

The queen and Princess Mary sail for Holland

19 March

The king enters York

23 April

The king refused entry to Hull

August

John Hutchinson and others prevent the Sheriff and Lord Lieutenant from commandeering Nottingham’s powder magazine

22 August

Royal Standard raised at Nottingham

War begins

23 October

Battle of Edgehill

13 November

Royal army retreats from Turnham Green

29 November

The king settles into winter quarters at Oxford

1643

22 February

The queen lands at Bridlington and is bombarded by the parliamentary ships

7 March

The queen arrives at York

18 March

The Earl of Derby storms Lancaster

30 April

Lord Derby defeated at Whalley

1 May

Unsuccessful attempt to surprise Corfe Castle

2–8 May

Siege of Wardour Castle

23 May

The Commons impeach the queen

4 June

The queen leaves York

18 June

Action at Chalgrove Field

23 June

Siege of Corfe Castle begins

30 June

The Earl of Newcastle defeats the Fairfaxes at Adwalton Moor

Lady Fairfax is taken prisoner

5 July

Battle of Lansdown Hill

13 July

Battle of Roundway Down

King and queen reunited near Oxford

26 July

Siege of Brampton Bryan begins

27 July

Bristol surrenders to Prince Rupert

4 August

Siege of Corfe Castle raised

7–9 August

Peace demonstrations in London

10 August

The king begins siege of Gloucester

8 September

Gloucester relieved by the Earl of Essex

9 September

Siege of Brampton Bryan raised

18 September

Royalist raid on Nottingham led by Sir Richard Byron

20 September

First battle of Newbury

Lord Falkland and the Earl of Sunderland killed

11 October

Battle of Winceby

31 October

Brilliana Harley dies

6–13 November

William Waller assaults Basing House

30 November

Treaty signed in Edinburgh between parliament and the Estates of Scotland

8 December

John Pym dies

1644

16 January

Second Royalist raid on Nottingham led by Sir Charles Lucas

19 January

First Scots regiments cross the Tweed

26 January

Battle of Nantwich

27 February

Siege of Lathom House begins

17 March

Brampton Bryan Castle falls to the Royalists

21 March

Prince Rupert defeats Sir John Meldrum at Newark

29 March

Battle of Alresford (aka Cheriton)

17 April

The queen leaves Oxford

April–June

Lyme besieged by Prince Maurice

1 May

The queen reaches Exeter

18 May

Wedding of Ann Harrison and Richard Fanshawe

27 May

Siege of Lathom House is raised

28 May

Bolton sacked by Prince Rupert and the Earl of Derby

16 June

Birth of Princess Henrietta Anne

29 June

Battle of Cropredy Bridge

2 July

Battle of Marston Moor

10 July

The queen sails from Falmouth

11 July

Siege of Basing House begins

25 July

The king at Exeter

31 August

Battle of Lostwithiel (aka Castle Dore)

9–14 September

Relief expedition to Basing House

27 October

Second battle of Newbury

19 December

Self-Denying Ordinance passed by the House of Commons

1645

January

Abortive peace talks between the royalist and parliamentary Commissioners at Uxbridge

4 March

The Prince of Wales leaves Oxford for Bristol

February–July

Siege of Scarborough Castle

April

Formation of New Model Army

20 May

Ann Fanshawe joins her husband with the Prince of Wales at Bristol

14 June

Battle of Naseby

10 July

Battle of Langport

21 August

Basing House besieged by Colonel Dalbier

10 September

Prince Rupert surrenders Bristol

13 September

Montrose defeated at Philiphaugh

24 September

Battle of Rowton Heath

8 October

Cromwell arrives at Basing

14 October

Storm and destruction of Basing...