Queen Anne

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

EB 's preface alludes to Steele'sTatler, and calls the slow, sure Snail . . . the well-meant, altho' weak Attempt of a mere Woman. After an introductory poem, her basic unit for...

AB wrote a verse epistle, Ovid to Julia, designed to defend or excuse the Earl of Mulgrave (later Duke of Buckingham) for aspiring to the hand of the young Princess Anne .

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

Scholar Kathryn King argues that JB 's career as a marketplace novelist (which began just two weeks after Queen Anne died) was undertaken with Jacobite purpose, and that her realistic, often domestic stories are...

PA published her first work: The Stuarts: A Pindarique Ode, dedicated to Queen Anne .

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...

The following year (1708), PA published two more poems in praise of the Queen and her ministers: The Extasy: A Pindarick Ode to Her Majesty the Queen and The Wellcome: A Poem, to His Grace...

MA 's philosophical second part to A Serious Proposal to the Ladies was published, again as by a Lover of her Sex, dedicated to Princess (later Queen) Anne .

During the 1690s, long before her involvement with a charity school for poor girls, MA apparently hoped to found a community of serious-minded, self-educating, middle-class, single women, of the kind she recommends in A Serious...

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...