Queen Anne

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, and that her realistic, often domestic stories are...

MP published To the Right Honourable Earl of Kent , Lord Chamberlain of Her Majesties Household . . ..

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 .

This time her addressee was a Tory, appointed to Queen Anne 's household in 1704.

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

It was published by Longman in three volumes. The king was said to have suggested the topic. It seems, therefore, that JP , in turning to the House of Brunswick for a...

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...

EE 's dedication to Queen Anne asserts her awareness of being a female pioneer. Another part of her paratext, the preface, defends women's learning and defies both those who set up for Censurers and those...

Astell expanded her Advertisement to mention with appreciation the reign of a female monarch, Anne . Her preface challenges the opinions of John Locke . It contains her famous question as to how women can...

MLC 's occasions include the public and private. She opens with an ode on the recent death of the queen's only surviving child , in which the speaker, unconventionally, rejects the consolation duly offered by...

This play, set in Britain after the imperial Romans had left, deals with the usurpation of a throne (in this case by the tyrant Vortigern , with allusion to George I ), and features strong...

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...

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...

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...

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, looking to Charlotte to...