Queen, anne


A few nice english sex images I found:

Queen Anne

Image by K. Kendall

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 here

My book about all this is now out of print: LOVE AND THUNDER! PLAYS BY WOMEN IN THE AGE OF QUEEN ANNE (Methuen, 1988).


Pink Euphorbia / Spurges




Image by Jun Acullador

Garden of Eva Fernandez in Calasiao, Pangasinan, Philippines.

Spurges (Euphorbia) are a very diverse worldwide genus of plants, belonging to the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae). Consisting of about 2160 species, spurges are one of the largest genera in the plant kingdom.

The plants are annual or perennial herbs, woody shrubs or trees with a caustic, poisonous milky sap (latex). The roots are fine or thick and fleshy or tuberous. Many species are more or less succulent, thorny or unarmed. The main stem and mostly also the side arms of the succulent species are thick and fleshy, 15-91 cm (6-36 inches) tall. The deciduous leaves are opposite, alternate or in whorls. In succulent species the leaves are mostly small and short-lived. The stipules are mostly small, partly transformed into spines or glands, or missing.

Like all members of the family Euphorbiaceae, all spurges have unisexual flowers. In Euphorbia these are greatly reduced and grouped into cyathia called pseudanthia. There are also (monoecious) species with male and female flowers on the same plant and those (dioecious) with male and female flowers occurring on different plants. It is not unusual for the central cyathia of a cyme to be purely male, and for lateral cyathia to carry both sexes. Sometimes young plants or those growing under unfavourable conditions are male only, and only produce female flowers in the cyathia with maturity or as growing conditions improve. The bracts are often leaf-like, sometimes brightly coloured and attractive, sometimes reduced to tiny scales. The fruits are three (rarely two) compartment capsules, sometimes fleshy but almost always ripening to a woody container that then splits open (explosively). The seeds are 4 angled, oval or spherical with or without a caruncle.

The common name spurge derives from the Middle English / Old French: espurge, to purge, due to the use of the plants sap as a purgative.
The botanical name Euphorbia derives from the Greek Euphorbus, physician of king Juba II of Numidia (52-50 BC - 23 AD), in whose honour â€" or in allusion to his swollen belly â€" a certain plant he might have used, possibly Euphorbia resinifera, was named (Euphorbia regisjubae - King Juba's euphorbia - honors the king's contributions to natural history and his role in bringing the genus to notice). In 1753 Carolus Linnaeus assigned the name to the entire genus (Spec. Pl. (ed. 1): 450). Type species is Euphorbia antiquorum.



Pink Euphorbia




Image by Jun Acullador

Eva's Garden in Calasiao, Pangasinan, Philippines.

Spurges (Euphorbia) are a very diverse worldwide genus of plants, belonging to the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae). Consisting of about 2160 species, spurges are one of the largest genera in the plant kingdom.

The plants are annual or perennial herbs, woody shrubs or trees with a caustic, poisonous milky sap (latex). The roots are fine or thick and fleshy or tuberous. Many species are more or less succulent, thorny or unarmed. The main stem and mostly also the side arms of the succulent species are thick and fleshy, 15-91 cm (6-36 inches) tall. The deciduous leaves are opposite, alternate or in whorls. In succulent species the leaves are mostly small and short-lived. The stipules are mostly small, partly transformed into spines or glands, or missing.

Like all members of the family Euphorbiaceae, all spurges have unisexual flowers. In Euphorbia these are greatly reduced and grouped into cyathia called pseudanthia. There are also (monoecious) species with male and female flowers on the same plant and those (dioecious) with male and female flowers occurring on different plants. It is not unusual for the central cyathia of a cyme to be purely male, and for lateral cyathia to carry both sexes. Sometimes young plants or those growing under unfavourable conditions are male only, and only produce female flowers in the cyathia with maturity or as growing conditions improve. The bracts are often leaf-like, sometimes brightly coloured and attractive, sometimes reduced to tiny scales. The fruits are three (rarely two) compartment capsules, sometimes fleshy but almost always ripening to a woody container that then splits open (explosively). The seeds are 4 angled, oval or spherical with or without a caruncle.

The common name spurge derives from the Middle English / Old French: espurge, to purge, due to the use of the plants sap as a purgative.
The botanical name Euphorbia derives from the Greek Euphorbus, physician of king Juba II of Numidia (52-50 BC - 23 AD), in whose honour â€" or in allusion to his swollen belly â€" a certain plant he might have used, possibly Euphorbia resinifera, was named (Euphorbia regisjubae - King Juba's euphorbia - honors the king's contributions to natural history and his role in bringing the genus to notice). In 1753 Carolus Linnaeus assigned the name to the entire genus (Spec. Pl. (ed. 1): 450). Type species is Euphorbia antiquorum.




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