Johnson, Samuel. Diaries, Prayers, and Annals. Editors McAdam, Edward Lippincott et al., Yale University Press and Oxford University Press.
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Health | Samuel Johnson | 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
. Johnson, Samuel. Diaries, Prayers, and Annals. Editors McAdam, Edward Lippincott et al., Yale University Press and Oxford University Press. 8-9 |
Health | Mary Lamb | 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. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 265-6, 276-83 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Queen Elizabeth I | 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... |
Literary responses | Mary Caesar | 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... |
Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | A series of various keys attached to later editions fed curiosity about the originals of DM
's portraits, without actually giving very much away. Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii. xv |
Literary Setting | Hélène Gingold | The protagonist, Harold Steyneville, lives during Queen Anne
's reign. Though according to HG
he is an unextraordinary man, Athenæum. J. Lection. 3015 (1885): 173 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Delaval | 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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Anne Finch | 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. Eicke, Leigh. “’You that have borne the cause of Kings’: Anne Finch’s Jacobite Writing”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Milwaukee, WI. Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. 274-5 |
Occupation | Jonathan Swift | 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... |
Occupation | Mary Astell | 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... |
Occupation | Edmund Curll | He may have been the last person to stand in the pillory for crimes connected with literature. Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press. 4 |
politics | Elinor James | EJ
actively exerted an influence on the course of national affairs. She was a radical traditionalist, monarchist, and Jacobite who was critical of all the Stuart monarchs before Queen Anne
, and a high-flying Anglican... |
politics | Elizabeth Bury | James III had been recognised by Louis XIV
in 1701 (disregarding the claim of Queen Anne
) as king of England, Scotland, and Ireland. |
politics | Mary Caesar | From the time she began writing her Jacobite credo in 1724, MC
worked on constructing a domestic cult for the edification of family and friends in the Jacobite faith, in which archives, pictures and poetry... |
politics | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | When she addresses Queen Anne
in poetry, MLC
speaks for those Whigs who had allied themselves with the queen and counted on her promise of toleration for Dissenters. She seeks to promote continuity between Anne's... |
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