Queen Anne

Standard Name: Anne, Queen
Used Form: Princess Anne

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Textual Production Mary Pix
This time her addressee was a Tory, appointed to Queen Anne 's household in 1704.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press.
7: 177
Dedications Mary Pix
It was dedicated to Princess Anne , whose favour MP was later (when the princess had become the monarch) able to boast.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago.
414
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...
Dedications Mary, Lady Chudleigh
Mary, Lady Chudleigh , published, with her name (the Lady Chudleigh), Poems on Several Occasions, dedicated to Queen Anne , with a further dedication To the Ladies.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University.
Mary, Lady Chudleigh,. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh. Editor Ezell, Margaret J. M., Oxford University Press.
41
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...
Textual Features Mary, Lady Chudleigh
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...
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...
Textual Production Delarivier Manley
In The Honour and Prerogative of the Queen's Majesty VindicatedDM commented on some of the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii.
xvii
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Production Delarivier Manley
DM joined in the anxiety surrounding Queen Anne 's worsening health in A Modest Enquiry into the Reasons of the Joy Expressed . . . upon the . . . Report of the Queen's Death.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii.
xvii
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Friends, Associates Delarivier Manley
The early years of Queen Anne 's reign found DM bitterly divided by politics from most of the women she had written and collaborated with: Centlivre , Pix and Trotter , as well as Fyge.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii.
xiii
Textual Features Delarivier Manley
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...
Textual Features Delarivier Manley
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...
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...
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...
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

Timeline

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

Women writers item

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...

National or international item

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...

Women writers item

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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