TEXTS

1. 1703 Mrs. S. F. [Sarah Fyge Egerton]. Poems on Several Occasions. Together with a Pastoral

2. 1703 Lady Mary Chudleigh. Poems on Several Occasions. Together with the Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd

3. 1704 [Mary Astell]. A Fair Way With the Dissenters and Their Patrons. Not Writ by Mr. L——-y, or any other Furious Jacobite, whether Clergyman or Layman; but by a very Moderate Person and Dutiful Subject to the Queen

4. 1706 Catharine Trotter. The Revolution of Sweden (Haymarket)

5. 1709 Susanna Centlivre. The Busie Body (Drury Lane)

6. 1709 [Delarivière Manley]. Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediteranean [!]. Written originally in Italian. 2 volumes

7. 1713 [Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea]. Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions. Written by a Lady

8. 1714 Susanna Centlivre. The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret (Drury Lane)

9. 1714 [Delarivière Manley]. The Adventures of Rivella: or, the History of the Author of the Atalantis with Secret Memoirs and Characters of Several Considerable Persons Her Contemporaries

INTRODUCTION

The accession of Queen Anne, Protestant daughter of James II, according to the plan Parliament had devised at the Glorious Revolution, meant that the Revolution settlement of the nation's affairs was increasingly secure. The political parties that had begun to emerge out of the Restoration Exclusion Crisis now began to take the shape of modern political parties. The Tory party had a majority of popular support in the country, as well as the enthusiasm of the Queen.