A Want of Kindness

A Novel of Queen Anne

Joanne Limburg

• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781782395904
• eBook ISBN:
  9781782395898
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

Longlisted for the Historical Writers Association debut novel award 2016. Every time I see the King and the Queen, I am reminded of what it is I have done, and then I am afraid, I am beyond all expression afraid. The wicked, bawdy Restoration court is no place for a child princess. Ten-year-old Anne cuts an odd figure: a sickly child, she is drawn towards improper pursuits. Cards, sweetmeats, scandal and gossip with her Ladies of the Bedchamber figure large in her life. But as King Charles's niece, Anne is also a political pawn, who will be forced to play her part in the troubled Stuart dynasty. As Anne grows to maturity, she is transformed from overlooked Princess to the heiress of England. Forced to overcome grief for her lost children, the political manoeuvrings of her sister and her closest friends and her own betrayal of her father, she becomes one of the most complex and fascinating figures of English history.

Contents

Dramatis Personae

Part I

Calisto and Nyphe

The King’s Dogs

Man or Tree?

The Ruin of Winifred Wells

A Catechism

In the Ruelle

What a Good English Princess Knows About Catholics

Love

From Lady Anne of York to Mrs Mary Cornwallis

The Duke’s Dogs

From Lady Anne of York to Mrs Mary Cornwallis

Mary’s Closet

Tom Thumb, his Life and Death

The Dean of the Chapels Royal

Letters From Lady Anne of York to Mary Cornwallis, August 1676 – October 1677

Anne in Flames

Anne’s Skin

Part II

Anne’s Maternal Line

Anne Enters Into Her Closet

The Princess of Orange

The Duchess’s Secretary

The Martyrdom of Charles I

Anne and Isabella

The English Tongue, Already so Rich in Insults, Acquires Two More

Anne in her Closet, Windsor, July, 1679

At The Inn for Exiled Princes

A Game of Ombre

Anne is Thankful

The Duchess’s Ball

Isabella’s Sister

Prince George Ludwig of Hanover

Anne Enters Into Her Cabin

Scottish Gallants

With the Duchess

What Anne Learns from Sarah Churchill

The Duchess’s Health

Lady Peterborough’s Nephew

What a Good En...

Table of contents

• A Want of Kindness
• Contents
• Dramatis Personae
• Calisto and Nyphe
• The King’s Dogs
• Man or Tree?
• The Ruin of Winifred Wells
• A Catechism
• In the Ruelle
• What a Good English Princess Knows About Catholics
• Love
• From Lady Anne of York to Mrs Mary Cornwallis
• The Duke’s Dogs
• From Lady Anne of York to Mrs Mary Cornwallis
• Mary’s Closet
• Tom Thumb, his Life and Death
• The Dean of the Chapels Royal
• Letters From Lady Anne of York to Mary Cornwallis, August 1676 – October 1677
• Anne in Flames
• Anne’s Skin
• Anne’s Maternal Line
• Anne Enters Into Her Closet
• The Princess of Orange
• The Duchess’s Secretary
• Anne’s Letters
• The Martyrdom of Charles I
• Anne and Isabella
• The English Tongue, Already so Rich in Insults, Acquires Two More
• Anne in her Closet, Windsor, July, 1679
• At The Inn for Exiled Princes
• A Game of Ombre
• Anne is Thankful
• The Duchess’s Ball
• Isabella’s Sister
• Prince George Ludwig of Hanover
• Anne Enters Into Her Cabin
• Scottish Gallants
• With the Duchess
• What Anne Learns from Sarah Churchill
• The Duchess’s Health
• Lady Peterborough’s Nephew
• What a Good English Princess Knows about Protestant Dissenters
• The Princess and the Poet: a Romance or All-pride and Naughty Nan: a Comedy
• His Majesty’s Declaration to all His Loving Subjects
• The Prince and Princess of Denmark
• Anne’s Maids of Honour
• Hans in Kelder
• Anne’s Fall
• 12th May 1684
• Anne Gives Thanks in Tunbridge Wells
• The King’s Body, and his Immortal Soul
• King James II’s First Speech to His Privy Council, As It Was Taken Down by Heneage Finch, Printed at London by the Assigns of John Bill, Deceased, and by Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb, and Subsequently Read to the Princess of Denmark by Her Ladyship, the Countess of Clarendon.
• Anne’s Religion
• The King and his Parliament
• Anne’s Daughter
• King Monmouth
• Physic
• The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
• Anne’s Uncle Rochester
• The Triumph of Squinting Betty
• The Man from Versailles
• The Vapours
• The Queen of Hungary’s Water
• Anne Treats Her Father Like a Turk
• Lady Churchill’s Character
• The Man from The Hague
• From the Princess of Denmark to the Princess of Orange
• Anne’s Fear
• 22nd October 1687
• The Queen Is With Child
• The King’s Vexation
• The Queen’s Belly
• From the Princess of Denmark to the Princess of Orange
• 16 April 1688
• Exodus 14:13
• From the Princess of Denmark to the Princess of Orange
• The Parable of the Ten Virgins
• Anne’s Uncle Clarendon
• His Majesty Bleeds at the Nose
• The Throne is Vacant
• Anne’s Abdication
• Anne’s Sister
• Lord Devonshire’s Leavings
• Peas
• Anne is Delivered in State
• Mrs Pack
• Persons Not At Ease
• Anne in Lent
• Chintz
• Campden House
• 14th October 1690
• The Queen’s Ladies
• Anne Dines at Holywell
• Anne’s Non-Naturals
• The Reformation of Manners
• From the Princess of Denmark to King James, written with the assistance of the Earl and Countess of Marlborough
• Anne and her Sister Mary
• The Earl of Marlborough’s Dismissal
• From the Queen to the Princess of Denmark
• From the Princess of Denmark to the Queen
• Syon House
• 17th April 1692
• Unkindness
• Lady Marlborough’s Misfortunes
• The Duke of Gloucester’s Birthday
• Anne is Pardoned
• In Bed with the Denmarks
• What a Good English Prince Knows About Warfare
• 21st January 1694
• Gloucester’s Progress or The Making of a Soldier
• Mary Consumed
• Anne at Thirty
• The Good Hope
• 20th September 1696
• Anne Dances
• Love for Love
• 25th March 1697
• The Peace of Ryswick
• 2nd December 1697
• Whitehall Burns
• Gloucester Is Taken Out of the Hands of Women
• 15th September 1698
• Anne’s Bedchamber Woman
• 25th January 1700
• From the Princess of Denmark to the Countess of Marlborough, in gratitude for her Lord’s good offices in securing a repayment for the Prince
• The Duke’s Eleventh Birthday
• Settlement
• Acknowledgements