Queen Anne

It was published by Longman in three volumes. The king was said to have suggested the topic. It seems, therefore, that JP , in turning to the House of Brunswick for a...

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...

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), faction, and rebellion (imaged as...

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...

In the late seventeenth century Swift worked for Sir William Temple (husband of the letter-writer Dorothy Osborne ), became an ordained clergyman, and embarked on a career of political pamphleteering. He took on his first...

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.

Her mother, born Sarah Ballenden, was related to three separate Scots noble families. She brought up her daughters at first on an Admiralty pension (discontinued on Charles II 's death, restored by Queen Anne )...

Both Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough , and Gilbert Burnet were concerned in the payment of CT 's mother's pension, restored under Queen Anne .

There was no author's name on the title-page, but the dedication was signed in full. It had opened about a month earlier (scholars differ over the precise date) at Congreve 's theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields

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...

He reacted badly to SW 's implicit declaration of Jacobitism in late 1701 or soon afterwards. When she resisted what she saw as an oppressive move to deprive me of my little liberty of conscience...