Samuel Hartlib (1600-1662)
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Henry Carey (1526-1596)
Henry Carey was born on March 4, 1526 in Suffolk to William Carey, son of Thomas Carey, and his wife Mary Carey, née Mary Boleyn and the future Mary Stafford.[1] As Mary’s affair with Henry VIII was ending around the … Continued
John Milton (1608-1674)
John Milton was born to John and Sara Milton on the ninth of December in 1608 in London, England. His early education began with private tutors, with whom he studied Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, and Italian. Sometime between the years … Continued
Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673)
Margaret Cavendish [née Lucas], Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1624?-1674) was born at St John’s Abbey in Essex. She was educated by private tutors, but not beyond a rudimentary level. Her tutors were probably elderly women without substantial connections to scholars who … Continued
Henrietta Maria (1609-1669)
Henrietta Maria, queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland, also known as Princess Henrietta Maria of France (1609-1669) was born in Paris and became the wife of King Charles I. The U.S. state of Maryland was named in her honor. … Continued
Pierre Du Moulin (1568-1658)
Pierre Du Moulin was born in 1568 to Joachim Du Moulin and Françoise Gabet in the Château de Buhy in north-east Normandy, France. Joachim was a protestant minister whose family disinherited him after he converted. Because of his father’s religious … Continued
State of Innocence (1677)
The State of Innocence is an opera by John Dryden (1631-1700) about the fall of man, based on Milton’s Paradise Lost. Composed in 1674, it was originally intended to be staged at the newly-built Theatre Royal in Drury Lane: fire … Continued
Samuel Pordage (1633-1691)
Samuel Pordge, the eldest son of clergyman John Pordage and his first wife Mary Lane, was born and baptized in London in 1633. Little is known of his early life. At the age of 11, he was admitted to the … Continued
Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692)
Thomas Shadwell was born in 1640, one of eleven children, to royalists John and Sarah Shadwell of Norfolk and had the breeding, if not the fortune as he would later say, of a gentleman. He was educated at home until … Continued
John Dryden (1631-1700)
John Dryden, poet, playwright, translator, and critic, was perhaps the leading literary voice of Restoration England and Poet Laureate from 1668 to 1688. He achieved distinction as the first verse satirist, the “father of English criticism,” and author of one … Continued