The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume I

Justin McCarthy (1830 - 1912)

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)

Genre(s): Early Modern

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Ch. 1: The Woman Born to be a Queen Pamela Nagami
00:25:30
Play 02 Ch. 2: What the Queen Came to--at Home Pamela Nagami
00:39:30
Play 03 Ch. 3: What the Queen Came to--Abroad Pamela Nagami
00:37:26
Play 04 Ch. 4: Those Around Queen Anne Pamela Nagami
00:36:56
Play 05 Ch. 5: Dissent and Defoe Pamela Nagami
00:31:20
Play 06 Ch. 6: On the Rough Edge of Battle Pamela Nagami
00:36:04
Play 07 Ch. 7: 'The Campaign'--Blenheim Pamela Nagami
00:51:06
Play 08 Ch. 8: Peterborough in Spain Pamela Nagami
00:34:52
Play 09 Ch. 9: Events and Parties at Home Pamela Nagami
00:41:40
Play 10 Ch. 10: The Union with Scotland Pamela Nagami
00:41:46
Play 11 Ch. 11: 'The Trivial Round--The Common Task' Pamela Nagami
00:45:32
Play 12 Ch. 12: The London of Queen Anne Pamela Nagami
00:47:58
Play 13 Ch. 13: Jonathan Swift Pamela Nagami
00:52:33
Play 14 Ch. 14: Ramillies and Almanza Pamela Nagami
00:36:57
Play 15 Ch. 15: The First Parliament of the Union Pamela Nagami
00:42:03
Play 16 Ch. 16: Sacheverell Pamela Nagami
00:50:04
Play 17 Ch. 17: 'Harley, the Nation's Great Support' Pamela Nagami
00:37:33
Play 18 Ch. 18: The Triumph of the Tories Pamela Nagami
00:37:09
Play 19 Ch. 19: What the War was Coming to Pamela Nagami
00:51:24
Play 20 Ch. 20: Jonathan Swift's Views Pamela Nagami
00:44:39