Queen Anne

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 .

Her subjects reach back to the semi-legendary such as Semiramis and Cleopatra . ABJ includes from England Queen Elizabeth and Queen Anne and from Europe Maria Theresa and Catherine the Great .

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...

She explains her own advisory role to former monarchs, and rejoicingly extols the virtues of Anne , the first entirely satisfactory monarch she has known: for while She lives none need to fear Popery.

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...

Leaving these images of militarism and turning back to Britain with Princess Charlotte in mind, AGcast[s] a forward glance to hope again / Protracted blessings in a female reign, looking to Charlotte to...

Although the Feminist Companion and many other standard sources list HG 's first publication as The Compleat Confectioner, published with her name at Dublin in (allegedly) 1742, the date on this publication is, almost...

The protagonist, Harold Steyneville, lives during Queen Anne 's reign. Though according to HG he is an unextraordinary man, he manages to master English, French, German, several sciences, riding, fencing and Latin...

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...

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 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. Copies of...

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...

Her letter, addressed to her prebendary uncle, Charles Elstob , mentions her deference to his judgement, and the favour she has received from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities . Female modesty, she says, prevents her...

EE published in a handsome volume, by subscription and dedicated to Queen Anne , a specimen translation from the homilies (or sermons) of Ælfric : An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory.