Queen Anne

Standard Name: Anne, Queen

Used Form: Princess Anne

Connections

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Textual Production	Aphra Behn	AB wrote a verse epistle, Ovid to Julia, designed to defend or excuse the Earl of Mulgrave (later Duke of Buckingham) for aspiring to the hand of the young Princess Anne . Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press. 289-90
Textual Production	Mary Pix	This time her addressee was a Tory, appointed to Queen Anne 's household in 1704. Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press. 7: 177
Textual Production	Jean Plaidy	The other novels in the series are The Three Crowns (1965), about William of Orange ; The Haunted Sisters (1966), about Mary , who marries William and reigns jointly with him in England, and Anne
Textual Production	Jane Porter	It was published by Longman in three volumes. Porter, Jane. Duke Christian of Luneburg. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, http://U of A, Special Collections. title-page The king was said to have suggested the topic. Porter, Jane. Duke Christian of Luneburg. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, http://U of A, Special Collections. 1: v-viii It seems, therefore, that JP , in turning to the House of Brunswick for a...
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. xvii 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. xvii Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Features	Antonia Fraser	AF says in her Author's Note that it occurred to her while she was working on Oliver Cromwell that women during the English Civil War would make a more interesting subject. She divides her book...
Textual Features	Delarivier Manley	The New Atalantis is crammed with offensive personal attacks on individuals (women as well as men); most though not all of them pertain to the misuse of political or sexual power. Particularly notorious is the...
Textual Features	Sarah Fyge	The volume nicely mixes the personal and political. SF shows daring in expressions of love and of refusal to accept conventional restraints of all kinds. She reprints all four of her poems on Dryden 's...
Textual Features	Anne Grant	Leaving these images of militarism and turning back to Britain with Princess Charlotte in mind, AGcast[s] a forward glance to hope again / Protracted blessings in a female reign, Grant, Anne. Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. Ballantyne. 48 looking to Charlotte to...
Textual Features	Elizabeth Boyd	EB 's preface alludes to Steele'sTatler, and calls the slow, sure Snail . . . the well-meant, altho' weak Attempt of a mere Woman. Boyd, Elizabeth. The Snail. iii After an introductory poem, her basic unit for...
Textual Features	Elinor James	She opens with the pious wish that the Holy Spirit may guide the lords, and closes by quoting Queen Anne . She hopes the Lords will measure up to the Commons , who have been...
Textual Features	Catharine Macaulay	CM sought to memorialise the men whose struggles had secured the reputation of England as a nation of liberty at the time of the Civil War, while believing that oppression in England had begun when...
Textual Features	Agnes Strickland	Their work (covering the lives both of queens regnant and of queens consort up to Anne ) covered enough new ground to be genuinely innovative. Their general thesis was that queens as rulers had been...
Textual Features	Elizabeth Elstob	EE 's first publication consists of a fairly short essay with some poems to fill out the volume. She celebrates Scudéry as a Sappho (one of Scudéry's strong female characters is Sapho) and as...

Timeline

September 1714

There was published A Collection of Queen Anne 's Speeches, Messages . . . from her Accession to the Throne to her Demise.

By 8 March 1718

A maypole standing in The Strand in London (destroyed by the Puritans in 1644 after such practices were made illegal, and loyally re-erected on 4 April 1661) was after various vicissitudes finally dismantled.

By 6 April 1742

An Account of the Conduct of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, a politicalapologia and attack on her enemies composed by her over almost forty years with various helpers, appeared a few weeks after Prime Minister...

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