Social
The History of England, by T. B. Macaulay (1849-1851), Chapter III. This famous chapter is still one of the best accounts of social conditions in England at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries.
Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, by John Ashton, 1882. This is the best account of dress, manners, amusements, travel, trade, and all the details of social life; it is frequently referred to in the notes of this volume.
Good Queen Anne, by W. H. D. Adams, 1886.
England and the English in the Eighteenth Century, by W. C. Sydney, 1891.
Social England, by H. D. Traill, Volume IV., 1895.
London in the Eighteenth Century, by Walter Besant, 1903. A storehouse of curious and valuable information, with many especially interesting illustrations from contemporary prints, drawings, and portraits.
The Popular History of England, by Charles Knight (1859), Volume V., Chapters XXVI-XXX.
Thackeray's Henry Esmond—perhaps the most remarkable historical novel in the language—represents with wonderful fidelity the very atmosphere of the Queen Anne time.