Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors, XXVII: Mary Astell, 1666-1731”. The Book Collector, Vol.
10
, pp. 58-65. 62
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Mary Astell | MA
's philosophical second part to A Serious Proposal to the Ladies was published, again as by a Lover of her Sex, dedicated to Princess (later Queen) Anne
. Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors, XXVII: Mary Astell, 1666-1731”. The Book Collector, Vol. 10 , pp. 58-65. 62 |
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... |
Textual Features | Mary Astell | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Penelope Aubin | PA
celebrates recent military victories, and praises Anne
for completing Queen Elizabeth
's work in assuring the strength of the Church of England
. She provides lavish panegyric for every Stuart monarch, as her ravish'd... |
Textual Production | Penelope Aubin | The following year (1708), PA
published two more poems in praise of the Queen
and her ministers: The Extasy: A Pindarick Ode to Her Majesty the Queen and The Wellcome: A Poem, to His Grace... |
Dedications | Penelope Aubin | PA
published her first work: The Stuarts: A Pindarique Ode, dedicated to Queen Anne
. Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. |
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 |
Textual Production | Jane Barker | 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, King, Kathryn R. Jane Barker, Exile: A Political Career 1675-1725. Clarendon Press. 148 |
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 Features | Elizabeth Boyd | |
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. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Caesar | |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Caesar | MC
begins with a commemorative account of the dealings of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford
(First Lord of the Treasury under Queen Anne
), with her husband, Charles Caesar
. It was news of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Caesar | Her own meeting with the monarchy in the person of Queen Anne
is handled with hyperbole: it was as Impossible for me Even to Attempt the Beauties of that Excellent Queens Mind, as for Kneller |
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