WOMEN ALL ON FIRE: The Women of the English Civil War

‘Readers will enjoy Plowden’s combination of a fine gift for storytelling with sound research and an infectious affection of her troop of intrepid ladies.’ Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times. ‘Our Women are all on fire, striving through a gallant emulation to outdo our men and will make good our yielding walls or loose their lives’ wrote a chronicler of the siege of Chester in 1645 In the war between king and parliament, the women of England played an active part.Some displayed a courage so far above their sex as to surprise 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.Also featured are the oyster wenches of London, who laboured beside the men digging trenches around the city; the women who helped prisoners escape, such as Anne Murray who provided a disguise for the Duke of York, and Jane Lane and Juliana Coningsby who risked their lives for Charles II in his flight from Worcester, and those of lesser rank who loaded muskets and passed ammunition.

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Product Code:	10115
Author:	Alison Plowden
ISBN:	0 7509 3765 3
Format:	254pp, sb. Published Price £8.99
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