1603-1714, stuarts

An 1869 historical romance set in seventeenth-century England about the adventures of yeoman John Ridd and his beloved Lorna Doone, a beautiful, aristocratic maiden who was kidnapped as a baby by an outlaw family.

Aemilia Lanyer, the daughter of a Venetian musician and a former favorite at Queen Elizabeth's court, begs for help from her former lover, William Shakespeare, when her son falls ill with the plague.

In 1650, while Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact, stillborn.

In England in 1662, a time of religious persecution, fifteen-year-old Susanna, a poor country girl and a Quaker, and seventeen-year-old William, a wealthy Anglican, meet and fall in love against all odds.

The story of a small mountain village in England and housemaid Anna Frith as they try to survive the terrible plague year of 1666.

In late seventeenth-century England, eleven-year-old Digory, forced to leave his hometown after his father is lost at sea, becomes an apprentice to the architect Henry Winstanley, who built a lighthouse on the treacherous Eddystone Reef--the very rocks that sank Digory's grandfather's ship years before.

Chronicles Britain's war history from 1603 to 1776, describing the political turmoil and carnage, as well as the intellectual genius, that shaped the British Empire during these centuries.

Discusses the bloodless revolution in England in 1688-89, that resulted in King James II being deposed and the power of the king being subjected to the bounds of law.

Fourteen-year-old Gwendoline Riston, having been accused of being a witch, is hidden away by her father after the plague hits her English town and witnesses the townspeople die from the sickness while blaming her for it.

Contains two novels in which Rachel and Robert, two young people living in London in 1665, share their individual stories of the chaos that erupts when the city is gripped by the plague.