Denbigh, Susan (‘Su’), Countess of (Susan Villiers), (i)
Denbigh, William (i)st Earl of, (ii)
Denham, Sir John, (i)
Denne, Dorothy, (i)
Denne, Captain John, (i), (ii)
Dennis, Alice, (i)
Denny, Honoria (Lady Hay), (i), (ii), (iii)
Denny, Lord, (i)
dentistry, lack of, (i)
Denton, Dr, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
Denton, John, (i), (ii)
Denton, Margaret (Margaret Smith), (i)
Denton, Nancy, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Denton, Susan (Susan Abercromby), (i)
Denton family, (i)
Derby, Charlotte Countess of (Charlotte de la Trémoille), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Derby, James Stanley (i)th Earl of, (ii), (iii)
Dering, Sir Edward, (i)
Dering, Unton Lady, (i)
Descartes, René, (i)
Desmond, Lady, (i)
Desmond, Lord, (i)
Device, John, (i)
Devonshire, William (i)st Duke of (Lord Cavendish), (ii)
D’Ewes, Sir Simonds, (i), (ii)
Digby, Sir Edward, (i)
Digby, Sir Kenelm, (i), (ii)
Digby, Mary Lady, (i)
Diggers, the, (i), (ii)
‘Discontent, The’ (Killigrew), (i)
Discourses and Essays (Shannon), (i)
Discoverie of Witchcraft (Scot), (i)
Discovery of Women Preachers, The, (i)
divorce, (i)n, (ii); and remarriage, (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); disputes over dowry and jointure, (ix); London associated with adultery, (x); divortium a mensa et thoro, (xi); Commonwealth Marriage Act (1653), (xii); divortium a vinculo matrimonii, (xiii), (xiv), (xv); adulterous wives and legitimacy, (xvi), (xvii); Lord and Lady Roos, (xviii)
Dr Chamberlain’s Midwives Practice, (i)
Dod, William, (i)
Doddington, Elizabeth, (i)
domestic service see servants
Donne, John, (i), (ii)
Dorchester, Countess of see Sedley, Catherine
Dorchester, Henry Pierrepont (i)st Marquess of (Earl of Kingston), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Dorchester, Katherine Marchioness of (Katherine Stanley), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Dorfold House, (i)
Dorney, John, (i)
Dorothea, Sister, (i), (ii)
Dorset Garden Theatre, (i), (ii)
Dorset, Charles Sackville (i)th Earl of, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Dorset, Richard Sackville (i)rd Earl of, (ii)
Double Dealer, The (Congreve), (i), (ii)
Douglas, Sir Archibald, (i), (ii)
Double Fooleries, (i)n
Downton, Mrs (‘White Legs’), (i)
Downton, Samuel, (i)
dowries, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); relationship to jointures, (vii), (viii); of Frances Coke, (ix); on separation or divorce, (x)n, (xi), (xii); of Anne Carr, (xiii); Lettice Morrison’s lack of, (xiv), (xv); of Catherine Manners, (xvi); and immunity from sequestration, (xvii); Verney sisters’ lack of, (xviii), (xix); of Lucy Pelham, (xx); of Anne Pierrepont, (xxi); of Pall Pepys, (xxii); of Margaret Fell, (xxiii); see also heiresses; marriage
Drogheda, siege of, (i)
Drummond, Sir Patrick, (i)
Dryden, John, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
Duchess of Malfi, The (Webster), (i), (ii)
Duck, Nell, (i)
Dugdale, Thomas, (i), (ii)
Duke’s Company, The, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Dunbar, Battle of, (i), (ii)
Duncombe, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Brownlow), (i)
Dungannon, Lord, (i)
Dury, John, (i)
Dyer, Mary, (i)
Dymoke, Anne (‘Stephen’ and later ‘John’ Evison), (i), (ii)
Dymoke, John, (i)
Dysart, Elizabeth Murray (Bess), Countess of (Duchess of Lauderdale), (i), (ii)
Dysart, William Murray (i)st Earl of, (ii)
Dyve, Lady, (i)
Dyve, Sir Lewis, (i)
ecclesiastical courts see church courts
Edgehill, Battle of (1642), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
education, (i), (ii), (iii); female intelligence, (iv); schools, (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii); literacy, (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi); convents, (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii); Puritan ideas on, (xxiii), (xxiv); of servants, (xxv), (xxvi); prejudice against learned women, (xxvii), (xxviii), (xxix); Margaret Duchess of Newcastle, (xxx); classical languages, (xxxi), (xxxii), (xxxiii), (xxxiv), (xxxv), (xxxvi), (xxxvii), (xxxviii), (xxxix)(Latin the language of scholarship and medical textbooks, (xl), (xli), (xlii), (xliii)); Mary Ward’s mission for Catholic girls, (xliv); importance of family support and circumstances, (xlv); Basua Makin’s views on, (xlvi), (xlvii), (xlviii), (xlix), (l), (li), (lii); Lady Ranelagh, (liii); of poor, (liv), (lv), (lvi), (lvii); increasing divergence from boys’, (lviii), (lix); French, (lx), (lxi), (lxii), (lxiii); Italian, (lxiv), (lxv), (lxvi); Hannah Wooley’s views on, (lxvii), (lxviii); Hebrew language, (lxix), (lxx), (lxxi), (lxxii); of Mary and Anne of York, (lxxiii); and Quakers, (lxxiv), (lxxv); teachers’ qualifications, (lxxvi); Mary Astell’s views on, (lxxvii); Elizabeth Elstob, (lxxviii); of midwives, (lxxix), (lxxx); see also accomplishments
Edward IV, King, (i)
Edward the Martyr, King, (i)
Edwards, Susanna, (i)
Edwards, Thomas, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Elde, George, (i)
Elfrida, Queen, (i)
Eliot, Sir John, (i)
Elizabeth I, Queen, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi)
Elizabeth Hooton, Prisoner in Lincoln Castle …, (i)
Elizabeth of Bohemia, Princess (daughter of James I), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Elizabeth, Princess (daughter of Charles I), (i), (ii)
Elliott, Katharine, (i)
Elmes, Peg see Verney, Peg
Elmes, Thomas, (i), (ii)
Elstob, Elizabeth, (i), (ii)
Elstob, William, (i), (ii), (iii)
Elys, Edmund, (i)
Endicott, Governor, (i), (ii), (iii)
English Gentlewoman, The (Brathwaite), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
English Huswife, The (Markham), (i)
English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-Day of St Gregory, An (Elstob), (i)
Epistle to Souldiers, An (Newcastle), (i)
Erle, Sir Walter, (i), (ii)
Essay in Defense of the Female Sex, An, (i)
Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, An (Makin), (i), (ii)
Essex, Arthur Capel (i)st Earl of, (ii)
Essex, Elizabeth Countess of (second wife of (i)rd Earl), (ii)
Essex, Robert Devereux (i)rd Earl of, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Ethelred, King, (i)
Etherege, Sir George, (i)
Euphoria, or The Extrication of the Soul (More), (i)
Eure, Mall, (i), (ii), (iii)
Eure, Margaret (Margaret Poulteney), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Eure, Peg, (i), (ii), (iii)
Eure, William, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Evans, Katherine, (i)
Eve, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); and moral weakness of women, (viii), (ix); and childbirth, (x), (xi); and breast-feeding, (xii)
Evelyn, John, (i), (ii); advice to his son on his wedding-night, (iii); and Margaret Godolphin, (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), and death of his grandson, (viii); on ‘my Lady Ogle’, (ix); on Josiah Child, (x); and education of Susanna Evelyn, (xi); and Bullen Reymes, (xii), (xiii); and Catherine Sedley, (xiv), (xv); and Mrs Myddleton, (xvi), (xvii); and actresses (xviii), (xix)
Evelyn, John (son), (i)
Evelyn, Mary, (i), (ii), (iii)
Evelyn, Susanna, (i)
Evening’s Love, An (Dryden),
(i)
Evison, John, (i)
Expert Midwife, The (Rueff), (i), (ii)
Eye (Suffolk), (i)
Eyre, Adam, (i), (ii)
Eyre, Mrs Simon, (i)
Eyre, Lord Mayor Simon, (i)
Fairfax, Sir Thomas, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Fairfax, Anne Lady, (i)
Falkland, Elizabeth Viscountess (Elizabeth Tanfield), (i)
Falkland, Lettice Viscountess (Lettice Morrison), (i), (ii); and death of her son Lorenzo, (iii); loyalty to her husband as widow, (iv), (v); charitable works, (vi), (vii); epitaph, (viii),297
Falkland, Henry Cary (i)st Viscount, (ii)
Falkland, Lucius Cary (i)nd Viscount, (ii), (iii), (iv)
Falmouth, Lady (Mary Bagot), (i)
Falmouth, Lord, (i)
Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500–1800, The (Stone), (i)
families, (i), (ii); inclusion of servants, (iii); limitation in size of, (iv); and women’s demand for freedom of conscience, (v), (vi)
Family of Love, the (religious sect), (i)
‘Famous Woman Drummer, The’ (ballad), (i), (ii)
Fanshawe, Ann Lady, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Fanshawe, Sir Richard, (i), (ii)
‘Farewell to Worldly Joys, A’ (Killigrew), (i)
Farley, Elizabeth (Mrs Weaver), (i), (ii)
Farmer, Captain, (i), (ii)
Farthing, Martha, (i)
Fatal Marriage, The (Southerne), (i)
Fauconberg, Mary Viscountess see Cromwell, Mary
Fawley Court, sacking of, (i)
Feign’d Curtezans, The (Behn), (i), (ii)
Feilding, Basil Lord (2nd Earl of Denbigh), (i), (ii)
Fell, George, (i), (ii)
Fell, Hannah, (i)
Fell, Isabel (Isabel Yeamans), (i), (ii), (iii)
Fell, Judge, (i), (ii)
Fell, Margaret (Margaret Askew), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Fell, Mary, (i)
Fell, Rachel (Rachel Abraham), (i), (ii), (iii)
Fell, Sarah, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Fell, Susan, (i)
Felton, John, (i)
Female Pre-eminence or the Dignity and Excellency of that Sex, above the Male (Agrippa), (i)
female suffrage, (i)
Female Vertuosos, The (Wright), (i)
‘Female Warrior, The’ (ballad), (i), (ii)
Female Wits, The (‘W.M.’), (i)
Femall Glory, The (Stafford), (i)
Femmes Savantes, Les (Molière), (i)
Ferrar, Nicholas, (i)
fertility, (i)
Fiennes, Celia, (i)
Fiennes, Colonel, (i)
Fifth Monarchists, (i), (ii), (iii); see also Trapnel, Anna
Finch, Anne see Winchilsea, Countess of
Finch, Anne see Conway, Anne Viscountess
Finch, Lady Anne see Twysden, Lady Anne
Finch, Charles see Winchilsea (i)th Earl of
Finch, Daniel (2nd Earl of Nottingham), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Finch, Lady Elizabeth see Bennett, Elizabeth
Finch, Sir Heneage, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Finch, Heneage see Winchilsea (i)th Earl of
Finch, Sir John, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Finch, Sir Moyle, (i)
Fisher, Mary, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Fitton, Anne see Newdigate, Lady
Fitton, Mary, (i)
Fitzroy, George (1st Duke of Northumberland), (i)
Fitzwilliam, Dr, (i), (ii)
Fleet prison, (i), (ii), (iii)
Fleetwood, Charles, (i), (ii), (iii)
Fletcher, John, (i), (ii)
Fletcher, ‘Little Elizabeth’, (i), (ii)
Flood, Thomas, (i)
Florio, Aurella (Molins), (i)
Florio, John, (i)
Flower, Joan (‘Mother’), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Flower, Margaret, (i), (ii), (iii)
Flower, Philippa, (i), (ii), (iii)
Ford, John, (i)
Fox, George, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix); founder of Society of Friends, (x); on spiritual equality of women, (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv); and Elizabeth Hooton, (xvi), (xvii); and importance of women in Quaker movement, (xviii), (xix); and Margaret Fell, (xx), (xxi); death, (xxii), (xxiii)
franchise see female suffrage
Freemans Freedome Vindicated, The (Lilburne), (i), (ii)
Freke, Elizabeth, (i)
Freke, Ralph, (i)
Friendship in Fashion (Otway), (i)
Frith, Mary (Moll Cutpurse), (i)
Fry, Elizabeth, (i)
Fulbeck, William, (i)
Fuller, Mrs George, (i)
Fuller, Richard, (i)
Fuller, Thomas, (i)
Fulwood, Katherine, (i)
Fulwood, Lady, (i), (ii)
Fulwood, Roger, (i), (ii)
fund-raising by women, (i), (ii)
‘Gallant She-Souldier, The’ (ballad), (i), (ii), (iii)
Gangraena (Edwards), (i), (ii)
gardens, women’s responsibility for, (i)
Gardiner, Captain, (i)
Gardiner, Carey see Verney, Carey
Garfield, John, (i)
Garrard, Rev. George, (i)
Gataker, Thomas, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Gate to the Holy Tongue, (i)
Gatehouse prison, (i), (ii)
Gawdy, Framlingham, (i)
Gay, John, (i)
Geddes, Jenny, (i)
Gentlewomans Companion, The (Woolley), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
gentlewomen, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
George I, King, (i)
George III, King, (i)
George IV, King, (i)
George of Denmark, Prince, (i)
Gethin, Gracy Lady, (i)
Gibbon, Edmund, (i)
Gildon, Charles, (i), (ii), (iii)
Gilnot, Goodwife, (i)
Gloucester, siege of, (i)
Gods Arke (Vicars), (i)
Godolphin, Francis, (i)
Godolphin, Margaret (Margaret Blagge), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Godolphin, Sidney, (i), (ii)
Godstow, covent at, (i)
Goldsmiths’ Company, (i)
Goldsmiths’ Hall see under sequestration
Good Counsell to the Petitioners for Presbyterian Government … (Chidley), (i)
Good Wife, The (Fuller), (i)
‘Good Wife Gods Gift, A’ (Gataker), (i), (ii)
Good Woman, A (Overbury), (i)
Goring, Lord, (i)
Gosnell (Pepys’s gentlewoman), (i), (ii), (iii)
Gouge, William, (i), (ii), (iii)
Gough, Richard, (i), (ii)
Grafton House, (i)
Grafton, Isabella Duchess of, (i)
Grahame, Colonel James, (i), (ii)
Gramont, Comte de, (i), (ii)
Grand Imposter Defeated, The (Dangerfield), (i)
Grande Mademoiselle of France, (i)
Graunt, John, (i)
Greatrakes, Valentine, (i)
Green, Ellen, (i)
‘Green Sickness’, (i), (ii)
Greenhill, Rev. Mr, (i)
Gregory, Elizabeth, (i)
Gregory XV, Pope, (i)
Gregory, William, (i)
Grey, Lady, (i)
Grey, Lady Jane, (i), (ii)
Grey of Wark, Lord, (i), (ii)
Guilford, Francis North, Lord, (i)
Gunpowder Plot, (i), (ii)
Gunter, Mary, (i), (ii)
Gurney, Elizabeth, (i)
Gwynn, Nell, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Hackney: Mrs Winch’s school, (i), (ii); Perwicks’ school, (iii), (iv); Woolleys’ school, (v); Mrs Salmon’s school, (vi)
Hadley, Katherine, (i), (ii), (iii)
Halifax, George Saville (i)st Marquess of, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Halifax, Gertrude Marchioness of (Gertrude Pierrepont), (i), (ii)
Halkett, Anne Lady (Anne Murray), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Halkett, Sir James, (i), (ii)
Hall, Mrs Betty, (i)
Halliday, Susan (Countess of Warwick), (i), (ii)
Hamilton, Anthony, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Hamilton, Sir David, (i)
Hamilton, James (i)rd Marquess of, (ii)
Hamilton, Mr (suitor to Mary Boyle), (i)
Hamilton, Su, (i)
Hammond, Colonel, (i), (ii)
Hampden, John, (i)
Hann, Rev. Mr, (i)
‘Happy Husbandman, The’ (ballad), (i)
Harcourt, Anne Lady, (i), (ii), (iii)
Harcourt, Sir Simon, (i)
Hardwicke, Bess of, (i)
Hardwicke Marriage Act (1753), (i), (ii)
Harley, Brilliana Lady (Brilliana Conway), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Harley, Dorothy, (i)
Harley, Edward (Ned), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)&N
Harley, Margaret, (i)
Harley, Robert (1st Earl of Oxford), (i)n
Harley, Sir Robert, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Harley, Tom, (i)
Harman, Philip, (i)
Harrison, Sir John, (i)
Hart, Charles, (i)
Hartlib, Samuel, (i)
Harvey, Dr William, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Haselrig, Sir Arthur, (i)
Hastings, Lady Betty, (i)
Hastings, Lady Elizabeth, (i), (ii), (iii)
Hastings, Ferdinando Lord see Huntingdon, Earl of
Hastings, Henry Lord, (i)
Hatton, Anne, (i)
Hatton, Sir Charles, (i)
Hatton, Christopher Lord, (i), (ii)
Hatton, Elizabeth Lady (Lady Coke), (i); opposition to marriage of Frances Coke and Sir John Villiers, (ii); and Corfe Castle, (iii), (iv), (v); separation from Sir Edward Coke, (vi)
Hatton, Frances, (i)
Hatton, Sir William, (i), (ii)
Hatton House, (i), (ii)
Hawkins, Jane, (i), (ii)
Hawtrey, Ralph, (i)
Hay, James Lord, (i), (ii), (iii)
Hazlitt, William, (i)
Hazzard, Dorothy, (i), (ii)
Hearne, Mary, (i)
Heath, Thomas, (i)
heiresses, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x); wealthy widows as (xi); and sequestration, (xii); ‘my lady Ogle’, (xiii); see also dowries
Hempstall, Anne, (i)
Henderson ‘Cousin’, (i)
Hellier, Anne, (i)
Hellier, Henry, (i)
Heneage, Elizabeth (Lady Finch, later (i)st Viscountess Maidstone and (ii)st Countess of Winchilsea), (iii), (iv)
Henrietta-Anne, Princess (daughter of Charles I), (i)
Henrietta Maria (Queen of Charles I), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); fosters cult of Platonic love, (viii), (ix); pregnancies, (x), (xi), (xii); and French as a fashionable language, (xiii); during Civil War, (xiv)
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