Nell Gwyn

Jeannine on 5 Jul 2005   Link to this

Assorted background links. Nell was mentioned by Pepys on many occasions and was a famous actress. She also became one of the many mistresses of Charles II. Among his famous dying words were his request to his brother James II "please don't let poor Nelly starve".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Gwyn

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9038633

http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/England-Hi...

http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/G/GW/GWYN_NELL.htm

http://www.hereford-heritage.com/NellGwyn.html

Richard Holden on 24 Jul 2005   Link to this

My Pepys also mentions Nell as living on Drury Lane.
I was in the Nell Gwyn Pub Friday just off the Strand, nice Ales.

jeannine on 8 Jan 2006   Link to this

See Grammont's footnote number 166 for her life details and little anecdotes.

http://www.pseudopodium.org/repress/grammont/no...

dirk on 29 Apr 2006   Link to this

Nell Gwynne (by Peter Lely)

http://www.revilo-oliver.com/Kevin-Strom-person...

Terry F on 2 Jun 2007   Link to this

Nell Gwyn Wikipedia article with Peter Lely portrait image

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Gwynne

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Nell Gwyn for Kids (attesting to her popularity)

http://www.berkshirehistory.com/kids/ngwynne.html

CGS on 10 Jan 2010   Link to this

another lead on her story put together later:
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" There lies intomb'd with this marble pile,
The wonder of her sex, who for a while
Fate durst not venture on, but taking breath
He has refin'd her to the arms of Death.
Readers, lament ! for seldom shall you find
The weaker sex to bear so strong a mind.
Strengthened with all the virtues France or th' Rhine,
England and Spain could infuse from wine.
But Bacchus, unkind, did tempt her to ingage,
Where she expired by subtle Neptune's rage.
The fate was cruel, yet the fame remains ;
For drinking, none like her the world contains.
So after-ages then, a stattue raise,
That we may eternalize her praise."
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http://www.archive.org/stream/nellgwynstoryofh0...