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This category is for feminine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language feminine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
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New England colonists living in Puritan-established settlements in the seventeenth century dealt with many of the same realities. Colonial settlements in New England saw a rapid expansion from roughly 1620 onward. The common assumption that Puritan society was homogeneous holds some truth, excepting matters of wealth.
Early New England Puritan funerary art conveys a practical attitude towards 17th-century mortality; death was an ever-present reality of life, [1] and their funerary traditions and grave art provide a unique insight into their views on death. The minimalist decoration and lack of embellishment of the early headstone designs reflect the British ...
Edwards was probably born in London in about 1704 or 1705. Her mother came from the Dutch family who had drained the fens and her father, Francis Edwards (d. 1729), a member of the landed gentry, owned lands in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, London & Middlesex, Essex, Hertfordshire and Kent and he had shares in the New River Company in Islington.
Samuel Scott (1702–1770) – British landscape painter; James Seymour (c.1702–1752) – English painter especially of equestrian art; William Hoare (c.1707–1792) – English painter especially of pastels; Francis Hayman (1708–1776) – English painter, illustrator, and one of the founding members of the Royal Academy
New York: Abbeville Press, 1997. ISBN 0-7892-0345-6; Gaetano Giordani, Notizie delle donne pittrici di Bologna, Bologna, Tipografia Nobili & C., 1832; Fidière O. Les femmes artistes à l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. Paris, 1885; Jones, Tanja L. (ed.). Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe. c. 1450–1700; Lucas ...
Name Parents Birth Marriage Became consort Coronation Ceased to be consort Death Resting place Spouse Ealhswith of Mercia: Æthelred Mucel – 868 c. 886 (Queen Consort of Wessex from 23 April 871) – 26 October 899 5 December 902 New Minster, Winchester, later Hyde Abbey: Alfred the Great: Ælfflæd: Æthelhelm (father) – 899 26 October 899 ...