Queen Anne

Standard Name: Anne, Queen
Used Form: Princess Anne

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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...
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...
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
with a dedication to the future George I . This political gamble (with Queen Anne still on...
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
Textual Features Elizabeth Elstob
EE 's first publication consists of a fairly short essay with some poems to fill out the volume. She celebrates Scudéry as a Sappho (one of Scudéry's strong female characters is Sapho) and as...
Textual Features Elizabeth Elstob
EE 's dedication to Queen Anne asserts her awareness of being a female pioneer. Another part of her paratext, the preface, defends women's learning and defies both those who set up for Censurers and those...
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...
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...
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 Antonia Fraser
AF says in her Author's Note that it occurred to her while she was working on Oliver Cromwell that women during the English Civil War would make a more interesting subject. She divides her book...
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...
Textual Features Sarah Fyge
The volume nicely mixes the personal and political. SF shows daring in expressions of love and of refusal to accept conventional restraints of all kinds. She reprints all four of her poems on Dryden 's...

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