Piers, Sarah, Lady. George for Britain. A Poem. Bernard Lintott, 1714.
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Queen Anne
Standard Name: Anne, Queen
Used Form: Princess Anne
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Caesar | MC
begins with a commemorative account of the dealings of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford
(First Lord of the Treasury under Queen Anne
), with her husband, Charles Caesar
. It was news of... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Caesar | Her own meeting with the monarchy in the person of Queen Anne
is handled with hyperbole: it was as Impossible for me Even to Attempt the Beauties of that Excellent Queens Mind, as for Kneller |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Alexander Pope | This combines an act of homage to a beloved place with a complex statement about the good life; that is, the life of retirement. The history of royal forests as game preserves for the privileged... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Elstob | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Penelope Aubin | PA
celebrates recent military victories, and praises Anne
for completing Queen Elizabeth
's work in assuring the strength of the Church of England
. She provides lavish panegyric for every Stuart monarch, as her ravish'd... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Lady Piers | But she moves on from celebration to warning: the human race is fallen, and a ruler needs to guard against ambition (This second Paradise, oh hazard not), |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | May Crommelin | Though they set out to cover every style and period, they show a marked preference for the early eighteenth century, the Queen Anne
style. Crawford, Elizabeth. “Caroline Crommelin and Florence Goring Thomas: 19thc Interior Decorators: Who Were They?”. Woman and Her Sphere, 26 May 2015. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Brownell Jameson | 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
. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elinor James | 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. James, Elinor. May It Please Your Lordships. 1702. |
| Travel | Elizabeth Delaval | Early in Queen Anne
's reign, Lady Elizabeth Hatcher (formerly ED
) received special permission for a business visit to London from her Jacobite exile in France. She was issued with a licence under... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Catharine Trotter | Both Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
, and Gilbert Burnet
were concerned in the payment of CT
's mother's pension, restored under Queen Anne
. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002. 4 |
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