Queen Anne

Standard Name: Anne, Queen
Used Form: Princess Anne

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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
Her work can claim some credit for the collapse of...
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
he manages to master English, French, German, several sciences, riding, fencing and Latin...
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
Copies of...
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...
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
He converted the period of his sentence (which could be a threat to health or life if...
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...
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
He resigned as Lord Chancellor on 23 September 1710 when the Tories came to...
politics Sarah, Lady Cowper
SLC took a keen and informed spectator's interest in local and national politics, but whereas her husband and his family were Whigs, she inclined rather towards the Tories. Reading Clarendon 's history of the civil...

Timeline

September 1714: There was published A Collection of Queen...

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September 1714

There was published A Collection of Queen Anne 's Speeches, Messages . . . from her Accession to the Throne to her Demise.

By 8 March 1718: A maypole standing in The Strand in London...

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By 8 March 1718

A maypole standing in The Strand in London (destroyed by the Puritans in 1644 after such practices were made illegal, and loyally re-erected on 4 April 1661) was after various vicissitudes finally dismantled.

By 6 April 1742: An Account of the Conduct of Sarah Duchess...

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By 6 April 1742

An Account of the Conduct of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, a politicalapologia and attack on her enemies composed by her over almost forty years with various helpers, appeared a few weeks after Prime Minister...

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