Queen Anne

Standard Name: Anne, Queen
Used Form: Princess Anne

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Wealth and Poverty Catharine Trotter
Both Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough , and Gilbert Burnet were concerned in the payment of CT 's mother's pension, restored under Queen Anne .
Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate.
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Travel Elizabeth Delaval
Early in Queen Anne 's reign, Lady Elizabeth Hatcher (formerly ED ) received special permission for a business visit to London from her Jacobite exile in France. She was issued with a licence under...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Elstob
Her letter, addressed to her prebendary uncle, Charles Elstob , mentions her deference to his judgement, and the favour she has received from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities . Female modesty, she says, prevents her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Penelope Aubin
PA celebrates recent military victories, and praises Anne for completing Queen Elizabeth 's work in assuring the strength of the Church of England . She provides lavish panegyric for every Stuart monarch, as her ravish'd...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text May Crommelin
Though they set out to cover every style and period, they show a marked preference for the early eighteenth century, the Queen Anne style.
Crawford, Elizabeth. “Caroline Crommelin and Florence Goring Thomas: 19thc Interior Decorators: Who Were They?”. Woman and Her Sphere.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah, Lady Piers
But she moves on from celebration to warning: the human race is fallen, and a ruler needs to guard against ambition (This second Paradise, oh hazard not),
Sarah, Lady Piers,. George for Britain. A Poem. Bernard Lintott.
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faction, and rebellion (imaged as...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Brownell Jameson
Her subjects reach back to the semi-legendary such as Semiramis and Cleopatra . ABJ includes from England Queen Elizabeth and Queen Anne and from Europe Maria Theresa and Catherine the Great .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elinor James
She explains her own advisory role to former monarchs, and rejoicingly extols the virtues of Anne , the first entirely satisfactory monarch she has known: for while She lives none need to fear Popery.
James, Elinor. May It Please Your Lordships.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Alexander Pope
This combines an act of homage to a beloved place with a complex statement about the good life; that is, the life of retirement. The history of royal forests as game preserves for the privileged...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Caesar
MC begins with a commemorative account of the dealings of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (First Lord of the Treasury under Queen Anne ), with her husband, Charles Caesar . It was news of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Caesar
Her own meeting with the monarchy in the person of Queen Anne is handled with hyperbole: it was as Impossible for me Even to Attempt the Beauties of that Excellent Queens Mind, as for Kneller
Textual Production Delarivier Manley
In The Honour and Prerogative of the Queen's Majesty VindicatedDM commented on some of the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Production Delarivier Manley
DM joined in the anxiety surrounding Queen Anne 's worsening health in A Modest Enquiry into the Reasons of the Joy Expressed . . . upon the . . . Report of the Queen's Death.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Production Penelope Aubin
The following year (1708), PA published two more poems in praise of the Queen and her ministers: The Extasy: A Pindarick Ode to Her Majesty the Queen and The Wellcome: A Poem, to His Grace...
Textual Production Jane Barker
Scholar Kathryn King argues that JB 's career as a marketplace novelist (which began just two weeks after Queen Anne died) was undertaken with Jacobite purpose,
King, Kathryn R. Jane Barker, Exile: A Political Career 1675-1725. Clarendon Press.
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and that her realistic, often domestic stories are...

Timeline

7 October 1660: News reached the British royal household...

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7 October 1660

News reached the British royal household of a marriage that was to become dynastically significant: that of the king 's brother (later James II ) with the commoner Anne Hyde , daughter of Lord Clarendon .

15 February 1675: John Crowne's Calisto; or, The Chaste Nimph...

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15 February 1675

John Crowne 's Calisto; or, The Chaste Nimph was performed at Court.

28 July 1683: Prince George of Denmark, brother of the...

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28 July 1683

Prince George of Denmark , brother of the Danish king, married Princess Anne (the future queen) at the Palace of Whitehall, London.

July 1700: William Duke of Gloucester, born in 1689,...

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July 1700

William Duke of Gloucester , born in 1689, longest-surviving child of the future Queen Anne , died of smallpox.

8 March 1702: King William III died and Queen Anne assumed...

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8 March 1702

King William III died and Queen Anne assumed the throne; she was crowned on 23 April, which was Charles II 's coronation day as well as St George's Day.

28 March 1702: Early in her reign Queen Anne issued a proclamation...

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28 March 1702

Early in her reign Queen Anne issued a proclamation against anyone printing, publishing, or circulating seditious papers and libels.

20 October 1702: The newly-elected parliament (first of Queen...

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20 October 1702

The newly-elected parliament (first of Queen Anne 's reign) assembled.

1704: Queen Anne's Bounty (a fund for supplementing...

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1704

Queen Anne 's Bounty (a fund for supplementing the stipends of the most poorly-paid clergy) was instituted.

13 August 1704: Marlborough and Prince Eugene wiped out the...

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13 August 1704

Marlborough and Prince Eugene wiped out the French army at Blenheim in Bavaria.

9 June 1705 : John Vanbrugh was officially appointed architect,...

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9 June 1705

John Vanbrugh was officially appointed architect, with the assistance of Nicholas Hawksmoor , to build Blenheim Palace at Woodstock in Oxfordshire as a national thank-offering to the Duke of Marlborough .

19 April 1710: Four Iroquois sachems or leaders, visiting...

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19 April 1710

Four Iroquois sachems or leaders, visiting London, had an audience with Queen Anne .

18 January 1711: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, brought her...

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18 January 1711

Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough , brought her trial of wills with Queen Anne to an end by indignantly returning her key of office.

June 1714: Sophia of Brunswick, Electress of Hanover,...

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June 1714

Sophia of Brunswick , Electress of Hanover, died two months before her cousin Queen Anne .

8 July 1714: Queen Anne signed the royal consent to the...

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8 July 1714

Queen Anne signed the royal consent to the Longitude Act, whereby Parliament offered a reward of up to £20,000 for a foolproof method of calculating longitude at sea.

1 August 1714: Queen Anne died and messengers left for Hanover...

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1 August 1714

Queen Anne died and messengers left for Hanover to inform George I that he had assumed the throne.

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