A passion for government : the life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough

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A passion for government : the life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough

Frances Harris

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1991

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Bibliography: p. [404]-411

Includes index

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Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was a woman with a `passion for government': a compulsion to wield power not only in her own family but in public affairs as well. She was the favourite of Queen Anne, the devoted wife and political associate of the Queen's most powerful subject, the passionate ally or bitter enemy of most of the leading public figures of her day, and in her widowhood the effective head of one of England's great families. Despite her stormy relationship with the architect Vanbrugh, she played a major role in the building of Blenheim Palace, one of England's most splendid houses. Born in 1660, she succeeded during the course of her long life in overcoming many of the contemporary constraints on her sex. Her sheer force of personality made her one of the most influential, as well as one of the most loved and hated, of Augustan women. This is the first complete scholarly biography of the Duchess of Marlborough. Frances Harris makes full use of recently available manuscript sources to tell the colourful story of a woman at the centre of power, whose life spanned more than eighty years from the Restoration to the fall of Walpole. Dr Harris sets Sarah's life and personal relationships in the context of her time, drawing a vivid portrait of a woman whose character and life are as fascinating and contentious today as they were to her contemporaries.

目次

  • Family fortunes
  • maid of honour 1673-1678
  • "true born Whig" 1679-1684
  • "arbitrary power and property" 1685-1688
  • rival courts 1689-1692
  • a retired way 1693-1701
  • "we four must never part" 1702-1703
  • "the detested names of Whig and Tory" 1704-1705
  • Harley and Abigail 1706-1707
  • "terrible battles" 1708-1709
  • "Maynwaring's key" 1710
  • paper wars 1711-1712
  • a sort of banishment 1713-1714
  • the Hanoverians 1714-1716
  • Sunderland's ministry 1717-1720
  • defying the Court 1721-1722
  • head of the family 1722-1725
  • the Queen and Sir Robert 1726-1730
  • dividing the family 1730-1733
  • "warm in opposition" 1733-1735
  • the patriots' prophetess 1736-1741
  • "an old woman is a very insignificant thing" 1742-1744. Appendices: The Marlborough family tree
  • the estates of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough.

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