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| | Anne, queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | Thus it was at least partly through the pressure of the Marlboroughs that Anne was induced, despite her Tory sympathies, to oust Tory ministers in favor of Whigs. |
 | | The Marlboroughs were even able to force the dismissal of Robert Harley in 1708, though the scolding duchess had already lost much of her power to Annes new favorite, the quiet Abigail Masham, kinswoman and friend of Harley. |
 | | During Annes reign such thinkers as George Berkeley and Sir Isaac Newton and such scholars and writers as Richard Bentley, Swift, Pope, Addison, Steele, and Defoe were at work, while Sir Christopher Wren and Sir John Vanbrugh were at the same time setting in stone and brick the rich elegance of the period. |
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