Queen Anne

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030796289X
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Queen Anne by : Anne Somerset

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.

Good Queen Anne

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147667681X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Good Queen Anne by : Judith Lissauer Cromwell

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.

Doomed Queen Anne

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152050863
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Doomed Queen Anne by : Carolyn Meyer

Download or read book Doomed Queen Anne written by Carolyn Meyer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1520, thirteen-year-old Anne Boleyn, jealous of her older sister's beauty and position at court, declares that she will one day be queen of England, and that her sister will kneel at her feet.

Queen Anne's Lace

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425280063
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Queen Anne's Lace by : Susan Wittig Albert

Download or read book Queen Anne's Lace written by Susan Wittig Albert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A present-day ghost leads China Bayles to a secret from Pecan Springs’s past in this haunting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert. While helping Ruby Wilcox clean up the loft above their shops, China comes upon a box of antique handcrafted lace and old photographs. Following the discovery, she hears a woman humming an old Scottish ballad and smells the delicate scent of lavender.… Soon, strange happenings start to occur in Thyme and Seasons. When a customer sees a mysterious woman picking flowers nearby and then suddenly disappearing, China must finally admit what Ruby has always known—their building is haunted. But by whom? As China investigates, the tragic story of a woman in one of the old photographs unfolds. China delves into the century-old mystery and realizes that solving it could have unimaginable repercussions in the here and now.

Queen Anne

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Total Pages : 476 pages
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Book Synopsis Queen Anne by : David Brontë Green

Download or read book Queen Anne written by David Brontë Green and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Queen Anne

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030021295X
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Queen Anne by : Edward Gregg

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

Sweetness and Light

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ISBN 13 : 9780300030686
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Sweetness and Light by : Mark Girouard

Download or read book Sweetness and Light written by Mark Girouard and published by . This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Girouard describes the 'Queen Anne' movement in all its manifestations, tracing its origin in the 1860s, the spread of its subsequent vogue from London to the provinces, and from England to America, and is fall from grace in the 1890s when it was taken up by architects of pubs and waterside villas.

As You Were

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Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1771964448
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis As You Were by : Elaine Feeney

Download or read book As You Were written by Elaine Feeney and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize • Winner of the 2021 Kate O'Brien Award • Winner of the 2021 Dalkey Emerging Writer Award Sinéad Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret. No-one knows it: not her fellow patients in a failing hospital, and certainly not her family. She has confided only in Google and a shiny magpie. But she can't go on like this, tirelessly trying to outstrip her past and in mortal fear of her future. Across the ward, Margaret Rose is running her chaotic family from her rose-gold Nokia. In the neighbouring bed, Jane, rarely but piercingly lucid, is searching for a decent bra and for someone to listen. And Sinéad needs them both. As You Were is about intimate histories, institutional failures, the kindness of strangers, and the darkly present past of modern Ireland; about women's stories and women's struggles; about seizing the moment to be free. Wildly funny, desperately tragic, inventive and irrepressible, As You Were introduces a brilliant voice in Irish fiction with a book that is absolutely of our times.

Queen Anne Furniture

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Publisher : Taunton
ISBN 13 : 9780942391077
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Queen Anne Furniture by : Norman Vandal

Download or read book Queen Anne Furniture written by Norman Vandal and published by Taunton. This book was released on 1990 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measured Drawings for 18 classic pieces.

Beware, Princess Elizabeth

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547940629
Total Pages : 239 pages
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Book Synopsis Beware, Princess Elizabeth by : Carolyn Meyer

Download or read book Beware, Princess Elizabeth written by Carolyn Meyer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “gripping historical drama” that tells the story of young Elizabeth Tudor’s journey to the throne—and her fierce rivalry with her half sister (School Library Journal). Imprisonment. Betrayal. Lost love. Murder. What more must a princess endure? Elizabeth Tudor’s teenage and young adult years during the turbulent reigns of Edward and then Mary Tudor are hardly those of a fairy-tale princess. Her mother has been beheaded by Elizabeth's own father, Henry VIII. Her jealous half sister, Mary, has her locked away in the Tower of London. And her only love interest betrays her in his own quest for the throne… Told in the voice of the young Elizabeth and ending when she is crowned queen, this novel in the exciting Young Royals series explores the relationship between two sisters who became mortal enemies. New York Times-bestselling author Carolyn Meyer has written an intriguing historical tale that reveals the deep-seated rivalry between a determined girl who became Elizabeth I, one of England's most powerful monarchs—and the sister who tried everything to stop her.