References

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Introduction

[1] Margaret Eure, letter to Ralph Verney, 4 August 1642. Memoirs of the Verney family, I, 258.

Women under fire and siege

[2] Quoted in O'Dowd, 'Women and war in Ireland', 93.

[3] Magdalen Faulkner to Ralph Verney, 8 and 17 March 1642. Memoirs of the Verney family, I, 236.

[4] Doll Leeke to Lady Verney, 1 September 1642. Memoirs of the Verney family, I, 260.

[5] Henrietta Maria to Charles I, 25 February 1643. Quoted in Adair, By the sword divided, 133-34.

[6] Jackson (ed), Autobiography of Mrs Alice Thornton, 33.

[7] Brilliana Harley to Edward Harley, 25 August 1643. Lewis (ed), Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley, 207-8.

[8] Fanshawe (ed), Memoirs of Ann, lady Fanshawe, 53-55.

Separations, fears and bereavements

[9] Brilliana Harley to Edward Harley, 13 December 1642. Lewis (ed), Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley, 185-6.

[10] Susan Owen to John Owen, 5 September 1643. Quoted in Adair, By the sword divided, 104.

[11] Susan Rodway to Robert Rodway. Quoted in Fraser, The weaker vessel, 194.

[12] Susan Feilding to Basil Feilding, late April/early May 1643. Feilding (ed), Royalist father, roundhead son, 191-93.

[13] Elizabeth Feilding to Basil Feilding. Feilding (ed), Royalist father, 200.

[14] K. Lloyd to Luke Lloyd, 3 February 1644. Manuscripts of Lord Kenyon, 62.

[15] Margaret Eure, November 1644. Memoirs of the Verney family, I, 175.

[16] Fanshawe (ed), Memoirs of Ann, lady Fanshawe, 77-79.

Living in the world turned upside down

[17] Brilliana Harley to Edward Harley, 4 June 1642. Lewis (ed), Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley, 166-7 [17]

[18] Fanshawe (ed), Memoirs of Ann, lady Fanshawe, 24-25.

[19] Margaret Eure to Ralph Verney, 21 May 1642. Memoirs of the Verney family, I, 253.

[20] Jackson (ed), Autobiography of Mrs Alice Thornton, 43.

[21] K Lloyd to Luke Lloyd, 3 February 1644. Manuscripts of Lord Kenyon, 62.

[22] Jackson (ed), Autobiography of Mrs Alice Thornton, 49-50.

[23] Bennitt (ed), 'Diary of Isabella Twysden', 121.

Images

The banner image is a detail from the front page of a broadsheet entitled 'The World Turned Upside Down' (1646)
Source: Adair, By the sword divided, 16.

Women under fire and siege

1. Defence of Wardour Castle, detail from 'Mercurius Rusticus' ()
Source: Adair, By the sword divided, 42.

2. Irish atrocities against protestants, propaganda print (Dutch)
Source: Carlton, Going to the wars, between 275-6.

3. At the battle of Naseby, detail from a contemporary plan of the battle
Source: Carlton, Going to the wars, between 275-6.

4. Henrietta and Charles I, portrait by Anthony van Dyck
Source: Web Gallery of Art

5. 'A great and bloody fight at Colchester', contemporary broadsheet
Source: Carlton, Going to the wars, between 275-6.

6. Brampton Bryan in ruins, early eighteenth-century print
Source: Fraser, The weaker vessel, between 240-1.

Separations, fears and bereavements

7. Portrait of Brilliana Harley
Source: Fraser, The weaker vessel, between 240-1.

8. Ann Fanshawe, miniature
Source: Adair, By the sword divided, 72.

Living in the world turned upside down

9. Puritan demonstrations in London; crowds pull down Cheapside Cross, 1643
Source: Adair, By the sword divided, 111.

10. Images of iconoclasm: soldiers destroying church fittings at York Minster
Source: Ollard, War without an enemy, 96

11. From 'The English Irish soldier', a satirical broadside
Source: Carlton, Going to the wars, between 275-6.

12. A baptism scene from the 1620s
Source: Cressy, Birth, marriage and death, 96.