The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England (108 page)

Elizabeth Barry. A portrait after Kneller.

A painting by Samuel van Hoogstraeten thought to portray Anne Viscountess Conway.

The actress Peg Hughes, mistress of Prince Rupert of the Rhine. By Lely.

A London courtesan, by Laroon. She holds a mask, the badge of her profession, in her hand.

Diana Kirke, later Countess of Oxford, one of the celebrated courtesans of the English court. By Lely.

Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester, mistress of James
II
. A portrait from the studio of Lely.

The ‘incomparable’ Mrs Jane Myddelton. An engraving after Lely.

An illustration from
The Midwives Book
by Jane Sharp (1671): this was the first book on the subject written by a woman in English and went through many editions.

The set of gynaecological instruments, including forceps, owned by Dr Peter Chamberlen which were discovered in the nineteenth century concealed in a box.

A medal struck to commemorate the birth of Prince James Edward Stuart to James
II
and Mary of Modena in 1689.

A satirical version of the birth of Prince James which draws on the legend of Erichthonius, half man, half monster, who appears out of a basket. The implication is that, hideous and deformed, he could not be of royal blood and must be a pretender. It was suggested by the Whigs that this baby (known to history as the Old Pretender) had been smuggled into the palace in a warming-pan.

Index

Abbadie, Rev. James,
(i)

Abdelazar
(Behn),
(i)

Abercromby, Jeremiah,
(i)

Abingdon, Abbey of,
(i)

Abraham, Daniel,
(i)

Abraham, John,
(i)

accomplishments,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
; needlework,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
; music and singing,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
; French,
(xvi)
,
(xvii)
,
(xviii)
,
(xix)
,
(xx)
,
(xxi)
; criticized in
The Women’s Sharpe Revenge
,
(xxii)
; and gentlewomen companions,
(xxiii)
,
(xxiv)
; Hannah Woolley’s views on,
(xxv)
,
(xxvi)
,
(xxvii)
; and Basua Makin’s views,
(xxviii)
,
(xxix)
,
(xxx)
; carving,
(xxxi)
; of Princesses Mary and Anne of York,
(xxxii)
; painting,
(xxxiii)
,
(xxxiv)
; ‘japanning’,
(xxxv)
; Mary Astell’s views on,
(xxxvi)
; and Anne Finch’s scorn for,
(xxxvii)
;
see also
education

actresses,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
; in court masque
Calisto
,
(v)
,
(vi)
; origins of profession,
(vii)
; reputation for immorality,
(viii)
,
(ix)
; costumes,
(x)
; incomes,
(xi)

Adams, Charles,
(i)

Addison, Joseph,
(i)
,
(ii)

Adman, Ursula,
(i)

adultery,
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
&n,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)

Advice to a Daughter
(Halifax),
(i)

Agreement of the People, The
(Levellers’ proposals),
(i)
,
(ii)

Agrippa, Cornelius,
(i)

Alcibiades
(Otway),
(i)