The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England (109 page)

Alington, Lord,
(i)

Alkin, Elizabeth (‘Parliament Joan’),
(i)

All for Love
(Dryden),
(i)

Alleine, Joseph,
(i)

Alleine, Theodosia,
(i)

Allestree, Richard,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

All’s Well That Ends Well
(Shakespeare),
(i)
,
(ii)

Althorp,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Amanda
(Hookes),
(i)

Ambrose, Isaac,
(i)

Anabaptists,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

anagrams,
(i)
&n,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Anatomy of Melancholy, The
(Burton),
(i)

Angell, Elizabeth,
(i)

Angell, Susanna,
(i)

Anglesey, Arthur Annesley
(i)
st Earl of,
(ii)

Anne of Denmark (Queen of James I),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Anne, Queen (Anne of York),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
; education,
(viii)
,
(ix)
; and Abigail Masham,
(x)
; and the Old Pretender,
(xi)
,
(xii)
; identification with Elizabeth I,
(xiii)

Anne, St,
(i)

Antidote against Atheism, An
(More),
(i)

Aphoria, or The Perplexity of the Soul
(More),
(i)

appearance,
(i)
,
(ii)
; hair,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
; and constant pregnancies,
(vii)
; ugliness associated with witchcraft,
(viii)
; restrictions on dress,
(ix)
; adoption of male dress,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
; French fashions,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
; Quaker dress,
(xvii)
,
(xviii)
; courtesans and vizard masks,
(xix)
,
(xx)
; actress’s costumes,
(xxi)
;
see also
beauty

apprentices,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Apsley, Sir Allen,
(i)

Apsley, Lady,
(i)

Aquinas, St Thomas,
(i)

Arbuthnot, John,
(i)

Arlington, Henry Bennet
(i)
st Earl of,
(ii)

Armies Commission, The
(Davies),
(i)

Army Council,
(i)

Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward and Unconstant Women, The
(Swetnam),
(i)
,
(ii)

Arran, Lord,
(i)

Artamenes or The Grand Cyrus
(de Scudéry),
(i)

Arundell of Wardour, Lord,
(i)

Ashwell, Ann (Ann Ridge),
(i)

Ashwell, Mary (Quaker),
(i)

Ashwell, Mary (Pepys’s gentlewoman),
(i)
,
(ii)

Ashwell, William,
(i)

Astell, Mary,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Aston, Anthony,
(i)

Athenian Oracle, The
(magazine),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Attoway, Mrs,
(i)
,
(ii)

Aubrey, John,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Aubrey, Mary (‘Rosania’),
(i)

Audeley, Eleanor
see
Davies, Lady Eleanor

Augier, Mistress,
(i)

Austin, Anne,
(i)

Austin, William,
(i)

authors,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
; learned women ridiculed,
(vii)
; attitude of women playwrights and authors,
(viii)
; Katherine Philips,
(ix)
; Anne Killigrew,
(x)
; Anne Winchilsea,
(xi)
; Anne Conway,
(xii)

Aynsworth, Elizabeth,
(i)

Ayscough, Ann,
(i)

Bacon, Sir Francis,
(i)

Bacon, Lord Keeper,
(i)

Bagot, Mary,
(i)

Baines, Sir Thomas,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Baker, Anne,
(i)
,
(ii)

Baker, Sir Richard,
(i)
,
(ii)

Ballard, George,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Bampfylde, Colonel,
(i)
,
(ii)

Banbury Grammar School,
(i)

Bankes, Sir John,
(i)

Bankes, Mary Lady (Mary Hawtrey),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Bankes, Sir Ralph,
(i)

Banks, John (Quaker),
(i)

Banks, John (playwright),
(i)

baptism,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Baptists,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Barbados,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Barber, Mrs,
(i)

Barebones, Praisegod,
(i)

Barillon, Paul,
(i)
,
(ii)

Barker (Pepy’s gentlewoman),
(i)

Barker, Jane,
(i)

Barkham, Alderman,
(i)

Barksdale, Clement,
(i)

Barnardiston family,
(i)

Barnardiston, Sir Nathaniel,
(i)

Barnes, Grace,
(i)

Barnes, John,
(i)

barrenness
see
infertility

Barrington, Lady Anne,
(i)

Barrington, Tom,
(i)

Barry, Elizabeth,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Barry, Robert,
(i)

Basing House,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Bastwick, John,
(i)
,
(ii)

Bastwick, Mrs,
(i)

Batchiler, John,
(i)

Bath, Henry Bourchier
(i)
th Earl of,
(ii)

Batten, Joan,
(i)

Baxter, Richard,
(i)

Bayly, William,
(i)

Beale, Mary,
(i)

Beaufort, ducal house of,
(i)

Beaufort, Mary Duchess of (Mary Capel),
(i)

Beaumont, Francis,
(i)

beauty,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
; virtue identified with,
(v)
,
(vi)
; Susanna Perwick,
(vii)
; Jane Myddleton,
(viii)
; Hester Davenport,
(ix)
;
see also
appearance

Beaux’ Stratagem, The
(Farquhar),
(i)

Becke, Betty,
(i)

Beckley, Beatrice,
(i)

Bedford, Anne Countess of (Lady Anne Carr),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Bedford, Francis Russell
(i)
th Earl of,
(ii)

Bedford, William Russell
(i)
th Earl of (later
(ii)
st Duke, formerly Lord Russell),
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
; marriage to Anne Carr,
(viii)
; raised to a dukedom,
(ix)
,
(x)

Bedford, Wriothesley Russell
(i)
nd Duke of (Marquess of Tavistock),
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Bedlam,
(i)
,
(ii)

Behn, Aphra,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
&n,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
; laments women’s lack of Latin,
(vii)
; mocks marriage,
(viii)
; and Mary Astell,
(ix)
,
(x)
; her success limited by ignorance of Latin,
(xi)
; tombstone in Westminster Abbey,
(xii)
; ‘Betty Flauntit’ in
The Town-Fop
,
(xiii)
; ‘Angelica Bianca’ in
The Rover
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)

Bellamira
(Sedley),
(i)

Bellasyse, Susan Lady,
(i)
,
(ii)

Belton House, Grantham,
(i)

Belvoir witches, the,
(i)
,
(ii)

Bendish, Bridget (Bridget Ireton),
(i)

Bendish, Sir Thomas,
(i)
,
(ii)

Bendish, Thomas,
(i)
,
(ii)

Bennet, Sir Henry
see
Arlington, Earl of

Bennett, Elizabeth (‘Widow Bennett’,
née
Cradock, later Lady Finch),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Bennett, Richard,
(i)

Bennett, Simon,
(i)
,
(ii)

Berry, Mary,
(i)
n

Bertie, Lady Mary,
(i)

Bess (Verney’s maid),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

betrothals,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Betterton, Mary (Mary Saunderson),
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
, 531 as ‘Ianthe’ in
The Siege of Rhodes
,
(vi)
; character and career,
(vii)
; earnings,
(viii)

Betterton, Thomas,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Bideford witches,
(i)

Bilbrowe, Mary,
(i)

Billingsgate fishwives,
(i)

Birch, Elizabeth,
(i)

birth control
see
contraception

Black Prince, The
(Boyle),
(i)

Blacknall, Mary
see
Verney, Mary Lady

Blagge, Henrietta Maria,
(i)

Blagge, Margaret
see
Godolphin, Margaret

Blagrove, Anthony (father and son),
(i)

Blanchard, Robert,
(i)
,
(ii)

Bland, John
(i)

Bland, Sarah,
(i)

Blaugdone, Barbara,
(i)

Blaykling, Ann,
(i)

Bletchingdon House,
(i)

Blount, Sir Charles,
(i)

Blount, Lady Anne,
(i)

Blount, Penelope Lady (Penelope Rich),
(i)

Blue Regiment,
(i)

Blundell, William,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Blundell, Winefrid,
(i)

Blunt, Sir Henry,
(i)

Blunt, William,
(i)

Boehme, Jacob,
(i)

Bonner, Bishop,
(i)