Queen Anne

In the late seventeenth century Swift worked for Sir William Temple (husband of the letter-writer Dorothy Osborne ), became an ordained clergyman, and embarked on a career of political pamphleteering. He took on his first...

During the 1690s, long before her involvement with a charity school for poor girls, MA apparently hoped to found a community of serious-minded, self-educating, middle-class, single women, of the kind she recommends in A Serious...

He may have been the last person to stand in the pillory for crimes connected with literature. He converted the period of his sentence (which could be a threat to health or life if...

The publisher was John Barber . The book appeared that year (a time of hope for Jacobites, with Queen Anne ill and the succession in doubt) with different title-pages and various imprints. Copies of...

The massive, handsome, handwritten volume of her writing now in the Bodleian Library (MS Rawl. D 78) is evidently a fair copy she compiled years later (as an occupation, she said, for the self-mortifying...

The protagonist, Harold Steyneville, lives during Queen Anne 's reign. Though according to HG he is an unextraordinary man, he manages to master English, French, German, several sciences, riding, fencing and Latin...

A series of various keys attached to later editions fed curiosity about the originals of DM 's portraits, without actually giving very much away. Her work can claim some credit for the collapse of...

Valerie Rumbold noted the allusions and double meanings with which MC offered the pleasures of complicity and solidarity to imagined readers (even though it seems likely that her husband was the only person to read...

The immense and long-lasting interest aroused by Elizabeth is not, of course, primarily due to her writings, any more than were the adulation paid her during her lifetime, the cult of Gloriana, the Virgin Queen...

Queen Anne performed the operation of touching for the King's Evil (scrofula) on her most famous patient, the two-and-a-half-year-old SJ .

Another followed an upsetting review of Charles's Specimens in the Quarterly in February 1812, another on her completing her own On Needle-Work in December 1814-February 1815, and another, unusually, only six months later.

The early years of Queen Anne 's reign found DM bitterly divided by politics from most of the women she had written and collaborated with: Centlivre , Pix and Trotter , as well as Fyge.

The moving spirits in this plot were ED 's cousin Lady Essex Griffin (formerly Howard) and the latter's husband, Edward, Lord Griffin , both of whom were her good friends as well as her relations...

The group comprised both authors and patrons. Other members were Dr John Arbuthnot , Thomas Parnell , and Lords Oxford and Bolingbroke . The writers among the club sent doggerel invitations to their meetings to...

Her mother, born Sarah Ballenden, was related to three separate Scots noble families. She brought up her daughters at first on an Admiralty pension (discontinued on Charles II 's death, restored by Queen Anne )...