Good Queen Anne
Good Queen Anne: Appraising the Life and Reign of the Last Stuart Monarch Judith Lissauer Cromwell | March 19, 2019 | McFarland & Company Inc. Paperback | ISBN: 978-1476676814 | Price: $55.00 Nonfiction/History Anne Stuart was raised in a court notorious for immorality and intrigue, happily married a handsome prince, experienced plots galore and a secret midnight flight, and suffered persecution and ill-health all by the age of thirty-seven. Gout-ridden and prematurely aged by seventeen pregnancies that failed to provide her nation with an heir, Anne began her reign by committing to a long and costly overseas war against Europe’s superpower while maintaining peace during political conflict at home. As the author of two previous historical biographies about complex and famous women, Dorothea Lieven and Florence Nightingale, Judith Lissauer Cromwell is qualified to meet the challenge and tell the true story of Queen Anne that posterity has lost. Her examination of ar...