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Queen Anne

by Edward Gregg

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Series: Yale English Monarchs (1702 - 1714)

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The reign of Queen Anne was a period of significant progress for the country, but the Queen has received little credit for these achievements. This biography seeks to shatter the image of a weak and ineffective monarch and establish her as a personality of integrity and invincible stubbornness. This revised edition includes a new foreword by the author. 'The best kind of biography, scholarly but sympathetic, as well as highly readable.' John Kenyon, 'Observer' Edward Gregg was professor of history at the University of South Carolina.… (more)
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Queen Anne has often been portrayed as a pasteboard character, a dull, weak, irresolute woman dominated by favorites, her policies determined by the outcome of bedchamber quarrels.
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Queen Anne was born and bred in a civilization deeply scarred by turmoil and in an age in which the past was a frail and uncertain guide to the future.
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The reign of Queen Anne was a period of significant progress for the country, but the Queen has received little credit for these achievements. This biography seeks to shatter the image of a weak and ineffective monarch and establish her as a personality of integrity and invincible stubbornness. This revised edition includes a new foreword by the author. 'The best kind of biography, scholarly but sympathetic, as well as highly readable.' John Kenyon, 'Observer' Edward Gregg was professor of history at the University of South Carolina.

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