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	Nell Gwyn - LoveToKnow 1911
		NELL GWYN [ELEANOR] (1650-1687), English actress, and mistress of Charles II., was born on the 2nd of February 1650/I, probably in an alley off Drury Lane, London, although Hereford also claims to have been her birthplace.
		Nell Gwyn, who sold oranges in the precincts of Drury Lane Theatre, passed, at the age of fifteen, to the boards, through the influence of the actor Charles Hart and of Robert Duncan or Dungan, an officer of the guards who had interest with the management.
		As an actress Nell Gwyn was largely indebted to Dryden, who seems to have made a special study of her airy, irresponsible personality, and who kept her supplied with parts which suited her.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Nell_Gwyn (663 words)

	Nell Gwyn - mistress of King Charles II
		In her early teens Nell Gwyn was engaged to sell oranges at the King's Theatre.
		Towards the end of 1669 Nell withdrew from the stage because she was pregnant.
		Nell survived Charles by only two years and was only in her thirties when she died.
	www.historic-uk.com /HistoryUK/England-History/Nell.htm (645 words)

	screenonline: Nell Gwyn (1934)
		A Cockney stage actress (a former orange seller) and a French born Duchess are mistresses and rivals for the affections of King Charles II and for the hearts of the British people.
		The real-life Nell was much less innocent than depicted here, and the film avoids questions of moral judgement, providing a whitewashed view of Nell mainly through comedy, both visual (a comic dog, Nell seductively wiggling her toes in bed), and mildly bawdy dialogue.
		Nell became one of her signature roles (along with Queen Victoria and Florence Nightingale) and was revived again in the 1953 stage production 'The Glorious Days', filmed as
	www.screenonline.org.uk /film/id/483368/index.html (325 words)

	Definition of Nell Gwyn
		Nell Gwyn (or Gwynn or Gwynne), (February 1650 - 14 November 1687), the most famous of the many mistresses of King Charles II, was called "pretty, witty Nell" by Samuel Pepys.
		The daughter of Thomas Gywnne and his wife Rose, Nell Gwyn was probably born in an alley near Covent Garden (though sometimes said to have been born in Hereford) and never learned to read or write.
		Nell is remembered for one particularly apt witticism, which was recounted in the memoirs of the Comte de Gramont, remembering the events of 1681:
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Nell_Gwyn (461 words)

	Nell Gwyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nell Gwyn (or Gwynn or Gwynne), born Eleanor, (2 February 1650 - 14 November 1687), was one of the earliest English actresses to receive prominent recognition, and a long-time mistress of King Charles II.
		Gwyn was illiterate her entire life (signing her initials "E.G." would the extent of her ability to read or write), adding an extra complication to the memorisation of her lines.
		Nell Gwynn was one day passing through the streets of Oxford, in her coach, when the mob mistaking her for her rival, the Duchess of Portsmouth, commenced hooting and loading her with every opprobrious epithet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nell_Gwynne (3307 words)

	Nell Gwyn
		Nell Gwyn (February 1650 - November 14, 1687) was the most famous of the many mistresses of King Charles II.
		Her full name was Eleanor Gwyn and she was born in Hereford, probably of Welsh ancestry, her father being a Thomas Gwyn.
		It is thought to have been Nell who persuaded the king to build the Royal Hospital, Chelsea[?] in London for ex-servicemen.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ne/Nell_Gwyn.html (178 words)

	Tracing rags to riches rise of comedic folk figure - The Boston Globe
		In this new biography, Charles Beauclerk, a direct descendant of Nell and Charles, seeks the person behind the image, a difficult task, since Beauclerk has no store of Nell's letters or journals on which to draw; she was illiterate.
		Nell's willingness to play the fool, Beauclerk argues, is what allowed her to cross barriers of social class.
		At times, Beauclerk seems star-struck himself, casting Nell in a mythic light: ''the woman who brought the monarchy to the people," ''the embodiment of her age." We learn that she reveled in her newfound luxuries, loved to entertain, and desired a title, but maintained her sympathies with the people.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2005/09/22/tracing_rags_to_riches_rise_of_comedic_folk_figure (494 words)

	Nell Gwyn - Glasgledius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Nell Gwyn (February 1650 - November 14, 1687) was the most famous of the many mistresses of King Charles II.
		Her full name was Eleanor Gwyn and she was born in Hereford, probably of Welsh ancestry, her father being a Thomas Gwyn.
		It is thought to have been Nell who persuaded the king to build the Royal Hospital, Chelsea[?] in London for ex-servicemen.
	www.glasglow.com /E2/ne/Nell_Gwyn.html (176 words)

	NELL GWYN - LoveToKnow Article on NELL GWYN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Her father, Thomas Gwyn, appears to have been a broken-down soldier of a family of Welsh origin.
		As an actress Nell Gwyn was largely indebted to Dryden, who seems to have made a special study of her airy, irresponsible personality, and who kept her supplied with parts which suited her.
		The name gwyniad is a Welsh word, and signifies shining ; and it is singular that a similar fish in British Columbia, also belonging to the family of Salmonoids, is called by the natives quinnat, from the silvery lustre of its scales, the word having in their language the same meaning as the Welsh gwyniad.
	56.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GW/GWYN_NELL.htm (815 words)

	THE ROMANCE READER reviews: Princess Charming by Elizabeth Thornton
		Gwyn is a Radley herself, a cousin of the Radleys of Haddo Hall, near Brighton on the southern coast of England.
		Jason has hunted Gwyn down to tell her she is the recipient of a legacy of ten thousand pounds from an anonymous donor.
		Jason and Gwyn do not have a "relationship;" neither of them is described as "needy." Gwyneth is very aware that her opinions on the marriage law are out of step with current thinking and, rather than trumpeting her certainty, she is more likely to change the topic.
	www.theromancereader.com /thornton-princess.html (740 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Nell Gwyn: A Biography: Books: Charles Beauclerk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Both were children of hardship: Nell, scrambling from poverty and probable illegitimacy to theatrical stardom, then upward to precarious glamour as the King's mistress, and Charles, for eleven years an imporverished, apparent loser scrambling to keep himself going, even to stay alive, in Europe while the Commonwealth ruled.
		Far more than a mere recitation of dry facts, Charles Beauclerk's biography of the magical life of Nell Gwyn displays rare insight into the human condition, which insights one soon realises are acutely applicable to the here-and-now of politics, art, and the mysterious attachments of the heart.
		Nell was above all a comedienne, a star in her own right whose alliance with the saturnine, tricksy Charles Stuart made them the most successful double act of the 17th century.
	www.amazon.co.uk /gp/product/0330485539?tag=technically0b-21&link_code=sp1&camp=2025&dev-t=0T1Q3KQYBRP8TS6YAFR2 (1561 words)

	Tate St Ives \| Past Exhibitions \| Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Caravan
		Gwyn Hanssen Pigott is one of Australia's most successful ceramic artists, with a career spanning over forty years.
		She is renowned for the abstract simplicity of her meditative, off-white porcelain pots, arranged in close groupings; which can be seen both as metaphors and as ordinary everyday objects.
		Gwyn Hanssen Pigott Caravan opens to the public 20 May 2004 before touring to Farnham Craft Study Centre and The Gallery, Ruthin Craft Centre.
	www.tate.org.uk /stives/exhibitions/pigott (369 words)

	Books \| Oranges were the only fruit
		Charles Beauclerk is a direct descendant of Nell Gwyn and King Charles II (and heir to the dukedom of St Albans, the title Charles II created for their illegitimate son).
		While it is true that Nell Gwyn was "the darling strumpet of the crowd", Beauclerk's claims for her democratising influence are unsubstantiated.
		Nell Gwyn's stage career lasted only seven years (she retired aged 21) and her contribution - in parts written specifically for her - to a new emphasis on female independence is usually vastly underestimated.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5271016-110738,00.html (632 words)

	Simon & Schuster UK LTD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Nell Gwyn had good reason to be pleased with her achievements: her sons had been ennobled and given the privileges and incomes attached to their titles.
		Nell Gwyn did little to affect the important events of her time; she is not remembered for any great deed or service to her country.
		Nell Gwyn was both proud and ashamed of her origins -- proud to be one of the people, who acknowledged her as a queen among them, at the very least a queen of the theater.
	www.simonsays.com /subs/excerpt.cfm?isbn=074327086X&areaid=286 (15363 words)

	The strumpet who stole a king's heart
		Nell Gwyn, who died 313 years ago this week, was a good friend of Charles II.
		Eleanor Gwyn (or Gwin, Gwynn or Gwynne) was born in 1650.
		When Nell got her chance at acting (the king didn't like cross-dressing men, so women were allowed on stage), she seemed to realize instinctively that Restoration audiences appreciated bare thighs and profane ad libs.
	www.walnet.org /csis/news/world_2000/gandm-001118.html (938 words)

	Nell Gwynne: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Nell Gwyn (or Gwynn or Gwynne), EHandler: no quick summary.
		Nell is especially remembered for one particularly apt witticism, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Nell is also famous for another remark made to her coachman, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ne/nell_gwynne.htm (1629 words)

	Pretty Witty Nell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Nell Gwyn was born Eleanor Gwyn on February 2, 1650.
		Nell never really knew her father as he died in an Oxford debtors' prison while Nell was still an infant.
		Of all the king's mistresses, Nell was the only one embraced by the public as her generosity, even temper, recklessness, and indiscretions made her irresistibly appealling to a generation that saw in her Puritanism's nemesis.
	inet4.swtjc.cc.tx.us /jillcoe/engl2322/nellgwyn.htm (436 words)

	Nell Gwyn quiz -- free game
		Nell is generally reckoned to have made her first stage appearance as Cydaria, the daughter of Montezuma, in “The Indian Emperor.” Who was the author of this play?
		Nell transferred her affections from Hart to a young nobleman.
		Nell's theatrical life was mainly lived at the Drury Lane theatre, but she also entertained the Court at a fashionable spa.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=162099 (217 words)

	King Charles II And Nell Gwyn
		Nell Gwyn was, in fact, a product of the vilest slums of London; and precisely because she was this we must set her down as intrinsically a good woman—one of the truest, frankest, and most right-minded of whom the history of such women has anything to tell.
		Nell Gwyn was much with Charles; and after his tempestuous scenes with Barbara Villiers, and the feeling of dishonor which the Duchess of Portsmouth made him experience, the girl's good English bluntness was a pleasure far more rare than sentiment.
		Again, her heart was touched at the misfortunes of the old soldiers who had fought for Charles and for his father during the Civil War, and who were now neglected, while the treasury was emptied for French favorites, and while the policy of England itself was bought and sold in France.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles23/famous-people-6.shtml (3799 words)

	Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		Nell's rise was meteoric: selling refreshments in London theaters, she honed a quick wit that led to an acting career and brought her to the attention of the king.
		Nell was never Charles's only mistress, but she was faithful to him and amused him by playing the fool.
		Nell's wit and charm brought her to the attention of numerous suitors, including one of the theater's leading actors, Charles Hart.
	www.halloween.com /halloween-books/free.php?in=us&asin=087113926X (525 words)

	Dog on the Cross by Aaron Gwyn \| PopMatters Book Review
		Aaron Gwyn's stunning yet disturbing debut collection of stories, Dog on the Cross, range far and wide across the Pentecostal landscape of a rural Oklahoma town, exploring voices, visions, faith, sin, depravity, temptation, and dreams, all set during the stark reality of a two and a half month religious revival.
		In a frenetic, fascinating, and wide-ranging one-hour phone interview we had recently, Gwyn explained the origin of these characters and their stories, his obsession with the prose he writes and his belief that human beings have no agency, no choice in the lives they lead or the things that happen to them.
		As it happens, these stories, which were Gwyn's dissertation at the University of Denver, came to him as he thought of his childhood growing up in a small town in Oklahoma.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/d/dog-on-the-cross.shtml (1285 words)

	Amazon.com: Nell Gwyn : Mistress to a King: Books: Charles Beauclerk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Nell's rise was meteoric: selling refreshments in London theaters, she honed a quick wit that led to an acting career and brought her to the attention of the king.
		Nell's wit and charm brought her to the attention of numerous suitors, including one of the theater's leading actors, Charles Hart.
		Nell was above all a comedienne, a star in her own right whose alliance with the saturnine, tricksy Charles Stuart made them the most successful double act of the 17th century.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/087113926X?v=glance (2509 words)

	NPR : A Family Take in 'Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King'
		Despite the associations with light implicit in her name and birthday, Nell Gwyn was born at one of the darkest hours in her nation's history.
		The London of Nell Gwyn's childhood was teeming with possessed souls.
		If Nell Gwyn was ever baptized, it would most likely have been in the aftermath of Worcester, while her future lover was enduring his own second baptism, that of fire.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5063416 (1485 words)

	Santa Clara University School of Law : Faculty: Gwyn Murray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Gwyn Firth Murray is founder and principal of the Matau Legal Group, which offers a broad range of commercial, licensing, and other legal services to both start-up and established companies in the high tech and biotech industries (see www.mataulegal.com).
		Gwyn was the first lawyer to join VA Linux Systems, Inc. (now “VA Software”) as internal counsel, and she served as Vice President, Legal Services for VA during its first year as a public company.
		Gwyn is a graduate of Stanford University Law School, and also holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Stanford University.
	www.scu.edu /law/faculty/all/fcty_1411.html (234 words)

	Settle for Khulan in Nell Gwyn - Telegraph
		THE most salient feature of today's Shadwell Stud Nell Gwyn Stakes at Newmarket is that all those at the head of ante-post betting on the Sagitta 1,000 Guineas have bypassed this seven-furlong contest that retains its billing as a prep-race for the fillies' Classic.
		There have been many talented winners of the Nell Gwyn, with last year's victor Petrushka going on to register a hat-trick of Group 1 successes.
		Sayyedati finished third behind Niche in the Nell Gwyn in 1993, prior to notching a gutsy win in the Classic, reversing the form with that rival.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2001/04/16/shhot17.xml (522 words)

	Great Romances - Past and Present » Nell Gwyn
		“Ah, Nell Gwyn,” we think immediately, “the little orange seller.” How disappointing it is to find that she had graduated from selling oranges to acting long before she met the king.
		But it was to Nell’s house that courtiers had to go if they wished to speak with the king; he was there at least once a day.
		And, after the king’s death, when her creditors gathered around Nell and she asked the new king, James II, for financial assistance, he honored his promise to Charles by paying her an annual allowance.
	www.great-romances.com /category/nell-gwyn (444 words)

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