Queen Anne : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Queen Anne / K. Kendall
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| 説明 | This triumphant statue of Queen Anne stands over the High Street entrance to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. I made this photograph on film in 1984, when I was doing research for my PhD dissertation on the Queen Anne era. While most of my heroines are unsung, Anne is a heroine to me for these reasons:--She was a "tomboy" from childhood, loved horses and the English countryside, loved to play the guitar, and had a deep and resonant singing voice. She always resisted girly stuff.--She tried harder than perhaps anyone in history to bear an heir; her husband's syphilis (mistaken for gout) was the cause of the deaths of their twenty babies. Despite being either pregnant or recovering from pregnancy (and the heartbreak of another dead baby) her entire adult life, she carried on with the job of administration and seldom missed appointments. Ultimately it was the pregnancies and the syphilis that killed her, at 49 (Wikipedia gets this and several other facts wrong).--She was unfailingly good to those she loved, and her love was extensive. She was fond of her husband and defended him from ridicule. She instituted a charitable procedure designed to relieve poor clergy called "Queen Anne's Bounty." And she loved her people and felt her greatest accomplishment was the union of Scotland and England.--She loved women, even when they betrayed her. After a long and passionate relationship with Sarah Churchill, to whom Anne gave Blenheim Palace (and whose husband Anne kept overseas for years, fighting France) Sarah bitterly denounced the Queen. Sarah called her a "female Edward II," and declared she should be dethroned for "having noe inclenation for any but her own sex." Sarah was jealous of Anne's new "favourite," Abigail Masham. Anne did not retaliate against Sarah, nor did she give up Abigail.--Anne was too ill and too busy to go to the theatre, but during her lifetime there were proportionately more plays by women staged in London than there have ever been before or since. She surrounded herself with women of intelligence, independence, creativity, and energy.See Bobster's entry hereMy book about all this is now out of print: LOVE AND THUNDER! PLAYS BY WOMEN IN THE AGE OF QUEEN ANNE (Methuen, 1988). |
| 撮影日 | 2009-02-18 21:49:05 |
| 撮影者 | K. Kendall , Portland, OR, USA |
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