Elizabeth Cromwell’s Kitchen Court: Republicanism and the Consort

Jan. 10, 2001

(part of a series in Issue 33: First Ladies? Political Wives in Seventeenth-century England) [1] In the course of exhaustively documenting the life and times of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Interregnum Protectorate, historians have taken virtually no interest in his wife, Elizabeth. They report that Elizabeth married Oliver...