Download or read book The History of the Life and Reign of Queen Anne written by Abel Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1722 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Good Queen Anne written by Judith Lissauer Cromwell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Recommended”—Midwest Book Review Queen Anne (1665–1714) was not charismatic, brilliant or beautiful, but under her rule, England rose from the chaos of regicide, civil war and revolution to the cusp of global supremacy. She fought a successful overseas war against Europe’s superpower and her moderation kept the crown independent of party warfare at home. This biography reveals Anne Stuart as resolute, kind and practical—a woman who surmounted personal tragedy and poor health to become a popular and effective ruler.
Download or read book Queen Anne written by Anne Somerset and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, Britain’s last Stuart monarch, and five years later united two of her realms, England and Scotland, as a sovereign state, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. She had a history of personal misfortune, overcoming ill health (she suffered from crippling arthritis; by the time she became Queen she was a virtual invalid) and living through seventeen miscarriages, stillbirths, and premature births in seventeen years. By the end of her comparatively short twelve-year reign, Britain had emerged as a great power; the succession of outstanding victories won by her general, John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, had humbled France and laid the foundations for Britain’s future naval and colonial supremacy. While the Queen’s military was performing dazzling exploits on the continent, her own attention—indeed her realm—rested on a more intimate conflict: the female friendship on which her happiness had for decades depended and which became for her a source of utter torment. At the core of Anne Somerset’s riveting new biography, published to great acclaim in England (“Definitive”—London Evening Standard; “Wonderfully pacy and absorbing”—Daily Mail), is a portrait of this deeply emotional, complex bond between two very different women: Queen Anne—reserved, stolid, shrewd; and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, wife of the Queen’s great general—beautiful, willful, outspoken, whose acerbic wit was equally matched by her fearsome temper. Against a fraught background—the revolution that deposed Anne’s father, James II, and brought her to power . . . religious differences (she was born Protestant—her parents’ conversion to Catholicism had grave implications—and she grew up so suspicious of the Roman church that she considered its doctrines “wicked and dangerous”) . . . violently partisan politics (Whigs versus Tories) . . . a war with France that lasted for almost her entire reign . . . the constant threat of foreign invasion and civil war—the much-admired historian, author of Elizabeth I (“Exhilarating”—The Spectator; “Ample, stylish, eloquent”—The Washington Post Book World), tells the extraordinary story of how Sarah goaded and provoked the Queen beyond endurance, and, after the withdrawal of Anne’s favor, how her replacement, Sarah’s cousin, the feline Abigail Masham, became the ubiquitous royal confidante and, so Sarah whispered to growing scandal, the object of the Queen's sexual infatuation. To write this remarkably rich and passionate biography, Somerset, winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, has made use of royal archives, parliamentary records, personal correspondence and previously unpublished material. Queen Anne is history on a large scale—a revelation of a centuries-overlooked monarch.
Download or read book The Reign of Queen Anne written by Justin McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Importance of the Reign of Queen Anne in English Church History written by Frederick William Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Reign of Queen Anne Digested Into Annals written by Abel Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1704 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queen Anne written by Edward Gregg and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reign of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch, was a period of significant progress for the country: Britain became a major military power on land, the union of England and Scotland created a united kingdom of Great Britain, and the economic and political basis for the Golden Age of the eighteenth century was established. However, the queen herself has received little credit for these achievements and has long been pictured as a weak and ineffectual monarch dominated by her advisers. This landmark biography of Queen Anne shatters that image and establishes her as a personality of integrity and invincible stubbornness, the central figure of her age. Praise for the earlier edition: “A thoughtful and . . . authoritative study, easily the best thing we have on the Queen. Like Anne herself, it is eminently worthy.”—Angus McInnes, History “With the appearance of this volume, a generation of revision in Queen Anne studies comes to fruition.”—Henry Horowitz, American Historical Review “The best kind of biography, scholarly but sympathetic, as well as highly readable.”—John Kenyon, The Observer “Bold . . . startling . . . imaginative and persuasive.”—G.C. Gibbs, London Review of Books
Download or read book The Reign of Queen Anne written by Justin McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Great Britain During the Reign of Queen Anne written by Frederick William Wyon and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the reign of Queen Anne digested into annals written by and published by . This book was released on 1706 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A History of the Reign of Queen Anne written by John Hill Burton and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Reign of Queen Anne written by Abel Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1708 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne written by John Ashton and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne written by A. D. Cousins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection of essays since George Sherburn’s landmark monograph The Early Career of Alexander Pope (1934) to reconsider how the most important and influential poet of eighteenth-century Britain fashioned his early career. The volume covers Pope’s writings from across the reign of Queen Anne and just beyond. It focuses, in particular, on his interaction with the courtly culture constellated round the Queen. It examines, for instance, his representations of Queen Anne herself, his portrayals of politics and patronage under her reign, his negotiations with current literary theory, with the classical tradition, with chronologically distant yet also contemporaneous English poets, with current thought on the passions, and with membership of a religious minority. In doing so, it comprehensively reconsiders anew the ways in which Pope, increasingly supportive of Anne’s rule and mindful of the Virgilian rota, sought at first to realise his authorial aspirations.
Download or read book History of England Comprising the Reign of Queen Anne Until the Peace of Utrecht 1701 1713 written by Earl Philip Henry Stanhope and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
