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The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume I

The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume I

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Number of Chapters: 20

Length: 13 hours and 42 minutes

Language: English

Anne Stuart (1665-1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, succeeded William III to the throne in 1702. She was the daughter of the deposed Catholic king, James II, but was of the Anglican faith. Liberal, Irish member of Parliament, Justin McCarthy, writing in 1902, creates in sparkling, uncluttered prose a panoramic canvas of Anne and her times. In the first of the two volumes, the brilliant commander, the Duke of Marlborough, defeats the French and Bavarians at the Battle of Blenheim, while the flagship of the admiral of the fleet, Sir Cloudesley Shovell, strikes the rocks near the Isles of Scilly and is lost with all eight hundred hands. We are at street level in rowdy London with its aristocratic bully boys, the Mohocks, its coffee houses, and its theaters. We meet the great Tories, Harley and Bolingbroke, and encounter the satiric spirit who haunts it all, Jonathan Swift. (Pamela Nagami)

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Ch. 1: The Woman Born to be a Queen (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 2: What the Queen Came to--at Home (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 3: What the Queen Came to--Abroad (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 4: Those Around Queen Anne (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 5: Dissent and Defoe (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 6: On the Rough Edge of Battle (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 7: 'The Campaign'--Blenheim (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 8: Peterborough in Spain (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 9: Events and Parties at Home (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 10: The Union with Scotland (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 11: 'The Trivial Round--The Common Task' (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 12: The London of Queen Anne (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 13: Jonathan Swift (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 14: Ramillies and Almanza (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 15: The First Parliament of the Union (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 16: Sacheverell (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 17: 'Harley, the Nation's Great Support' (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 18: The Triumph of the Tories (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 19: What the War was Coming to (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 20: Jonathan Swift's Views (Pamela Nagami)
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