The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume II

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 second of the two volumes, McCarthy describes the Battle of Malplaquet, where Marlborough meets the French in "a contest of hand-to-hand fighting on a gigantic scale." Then follows "the darkest chapter in the record of Queen Anne's reign," as a parliamentary conspiracy, headed by Bolingbroke, topples Marlborough from power. From Parliament we move to London's coffee houses where Londoners gather to read the "Spectator" and where, in 1714, they anxiously await news of the dying Queen. Scarcely has George I ascended his throne, when Jacobites at home and abroad begin to plot a Stuart Restoration under the son of the ousted James. (Pamela Nagami)

Genre(s): Early Modern

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Ch. 21: 'Swedish Charles' and Czar Peter Pamela Nagami
00:38:08
Play 02 Ch. 22: Malplaquet--and After Pamela Nagami
00:35:49
Play 03 Ch. 23: The War in the Embers Pamela Nagami
00:28:44
Play 04 Ch. 24: Bolingbroke at his Zenith Pamela Nagami
00:41:01
Play 05 Ch. 25: 'Gone to Swear a Peace' Pamela Nagami
00:38:41
Play 06 Ch. 26: 'I Fall Under this Plot' Pamela Nagami
00:34:19
Play 07 Ch. 27: Europe Reconstructed--on Paper Pamela Nagami
00:42:00
Play 08 Ch. 28: The Huguenot Refugees Pamela Nagami
00:30:25
Play 09 Ch. 29: 'The 'Spectator' Pamela Nagami
00:47:46
Play 10 Ch. 30: Ireland Under Queen Anne Pamela Nagami
00:43:20
Play 11 Ch. 31: The Rise of Robert Walpole Pamela Nagami
00:28:51
Play 12 Ch. 32: Alexander Pope Pamela Nagami
00:34:10
Play 13 Ch. 33: Shadows Cast Before Pamela Nagami
00:43:11
Play 14 Ch. 34: Addison's 'Cato' Pamela Nagami
00:25:25
Play 15 Ch. 35: Old Lamps and New Pamela Nagami
00:35:35
Play 16 Ch. 36: Wales Under Queen Anne Pamela Nagami
00:27:30
Play 17 Ch. 37: Restoration Hopes Revived Pamela Nagami
00:34:41
Play 18 Ch. 38: The Game Lost Pamela Nagami
00:29:03
Play 19 Ch. 39: The Death of the Queen Pamela Nagami
00:30:28
Play 20 Ch. 40: Retrospect Pamela Nagami
00:35:24