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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

CM sought to memorialise the men whose struggles had secured the reputation of England as a nation of liberty at the time of the Civil War, while believing that oppression in England had begun when...