Isabella Waterhouse
English portrait painter; mother of John William Waterhouse
English, Female, Painter
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Articles for which there is no corresponding Wikipedia article.
Plot
Waldegrave Conspiracy
Supposed plot to kill Queen Elizabeth I and reintroduce Catholicism to England.
John William Waterhouse, Painting, Pre-Raphaelite
Mariamne
Oil painting by John William Waterhouse, the largest art work he ever produced.
Legislation
Commonwealth (Adultery) Act 1650
Act passed by the Rump Parliament in 1650 making fornication, adultery and incest secular offences.
Legislation
Punishment of Incest Act 1908
Act of Parliament making it illegal for the first time in England and Wales for a man to engage in sexual intercourse with any female he knew to be his grand-daughter, daughter, sister, half-sister, or mother.
Healer, Prophet
Anne Jefferies
Young Cornish servant girl endowed with the power to heal and prophetise after being visited by fairies.
English, Female, Ghost, Landowner, Philanthropist
Dorothy Legh
Born Dorothy Egerton (1565–1639), also known as Dorothy Brereton, Lady of the Manor of Worsley, was a coal owner and benefactor of Ellenbrook Chapel near her home in Worsley, Lancashire.
Female, German, Witch
Margaretha Horn, witch
Woman arrested on suspicion of witchcraft in Rothenburg in 1652, who despite being tortured, vigorously protested her innocence.
Scottish, Song
There’s Nae Luck Aboot The Hoose
Song by Scottish poet Jean Adam (1704–1765), set to the music of “Up an’ Waur Them A’ ”.
English, Female, Landowner
Diana Beaumont
Eldest illegitimate daughter of Sir Thomas Wentworth of Bretton Hall near Wakefield in Yorkshire.
