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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. |
 | | Queen Anne was a dull, stubborn, but conscientious woman, devoted to the Church of England and within it to the High Church party. |
 | | 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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