As the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the
education thought proper for a princess, reading plays and poetry
in English and French while learning dancing, singing, acting,
drawing, and instrumental music. As an adult, she played the guitar
and the harpsichord, danced regularly, and took a connoisseur's
interest in all the arts. In this comprehensive interdisciplinary
biography, James Winn tells the story of Anne's life in new breadth
and detail, and in unprecedented cultural context. Winn shows how
poets, painters, and musicians used the works they made for Anne to
send overt and covert political messages to the queen, the court,
the church, and Parliament. Their works also illustrates the pathos
of Anne's personal life: the loss of her mother when she was six,
her troubled relations with her father and her sister, James II and
Mary II, and her own doomed efforts to produce an heir. Her
eighteen pregnancies produced only one child who lived past
infancy; his death at the age of eleven, mourned by poets, was a
blow from which Anne never fully recovered. Her close friendship
with Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, a topic of scabrous ballads and
fictions, ended in bitter discord; the death of her husband in 1708
left her emotionally isolated; and the wrangling among her chief
ministers hastened her death. Richly illustrated with visual and
musical examples, Queen Anne draws on works by a wide array of
artists - among them composer George Frideric Handel, the poet
Alexander Pope, the painter Godfrey Kneller, and the architect
Christopher Wren - to shed new light on Anne's life and reign. This
is the definitive biography of Queen Anne.
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