Queen Anne

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

MCC supported the Whig party, in which her husband, Lord Cowper, was a leading player. He resigned as Lord Chancellor on 23 September 1710 when the Tories came to...

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...

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...