Queen Anne

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...

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...

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...

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...

Though they set out to cover every style and period, they show a marked preference for the early eighteenth century, the Queen Anne style.

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 .

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.

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...

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

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...

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