Queen Anne

Early in the eighteenth century, the Covenant, Scotland's Glory above other Nations, was threatened by a malignant, ungodly, Prelatick Party. These men were waiting for the death of the Protestant champion William III and...

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...

James III had been recognised by Louis XIV in 1701 (disregarding the claim of Queen Anne ) as king of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

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...

It was published the following month, ascribed to the Author of The Gamester, with a dedication to the future George I . This political gamble (with Queen Anne still on...

Two years after Queen Anne succeeded to the throne, JB returned from France to England to live at Wilsthorpe.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...