#LucyHutchinson
What makes a revolutionary? Who transforms resistance into rebellion? And when does a nation realize that challenging authority has resulted in a complete overturn of a country’s reigning monarchy?
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Married to a King-Killer
What makes a revolutionary? Who transforms resistance into rebellion? Lucy Hutchinson chooses sides in England's Civil War.
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January 30, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Lucy Hutchinson raised her children and managed her household within the ruins of Nottingham Castle. Her Memoirs reveal the challenges of nursing enemy soldiers, and childhood games amid cannon fire.

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A Family at War: Cannonballs, Children, and Courage within Nottingham Castle - Elizabeth St.John
Small children scamper through the half-ruined walls of Nottingham Castle, gathering up still-warm cannonballs and rolling them about like toys. Their mother, Lucy Hutchinson, watches anxiously, while...
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September 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
And this was according to #LucyHutchinson, her daughter: ..."there were not in those days so many beautiful women found in any family as these, but my mother was by the most judgments preferred before all her elder sisters, who, something envious at it, used her unkindly..." #NovelMaterial
December 19, 2024 at 5:43 PM