Boyd, Elizabeth. The Snail.
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Textual Features | Elizabeth Boyd | |
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 | 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 | 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... |
Residence | Elizabeth Tollet | They stayed at the Tower after his naval employment came to an end in late 1714, following Queen Anne
's death and the Hanoverian accession. They did not leave until some time in 1718. Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University. 13, 16 |
Residence | Jane Barker | Two years after Queen Anne
succeeded to the throne, JB
returned from France to England to live at Wilsthorpe. King, Kathryn R., and Jeslyn Medoff. “Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 21 , No. 3, pp. 16-38. 22 Wilson, Carol Shiner, and Jane Barker. “Introduction”. The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, Oxford University Press, p. xv - xliv. xxix |
Publishing | Susanna Centlivre | It was published the following month, ascribed to the Author of The Gamester, Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot. 1 (no. 1): 4 |
Author summary | Mary Masters | MM
was a self-taught poet, probably born at the end of the seventeenth century, who wrote from inclination and published because she needed the money. Her feminist opinions (expressed mainly in letters) are those current... |
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... |
politics | Mary, Countess Cowper | MCC
supported the Whig party, in which her husband, Lord Cowper, was a leading player. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William, first Earl Cowper |
politics | Elisabeth Wast | Early in the eighteenth century, the Covenant, Scotland's Glory above other Nations, was threatened by a malignant, ungodly, Prelatick Party. Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises. 137 |
politics | Sarah, Lady Cowper | |
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 | 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 | 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... |
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