Rachel Carnell - Backlash: Libel, Impeachment, and Populism in the Reign of Queen Anne

I AM GRATEFUL to everyone who supported this book in its early stages, including my parents, John and Sue Carnell, neither of whom, unfortunately, lived to see it come to fruition. Ruth Herman and Bob Owens deserve credit for introducing me to the life and works of Delarivier Manley. Chris Mounsey has provided invigorating intellectual conversations for over two decades, and delicious meals whenever I am in London. Paula Bloch attentively read through each chapter in sequence, over the course of the year I was writing. Carole Sargent saw value in this project from our first conversation about it. She also generously provided images from The New Atalantis and Memoirs of Europe from her own Manley collection. At Cleveland State University, Jeff Karem and Jerzy Sawicki have been enthusiastic supporters of my research as long as I have known them. This book could not have been completed without Faculty Scholarship Initiative grants from Cleveland State Universitys Office of Research for the summers of 2018 and 2019. Will Dube has been a savvy marketer and invaluable in bringing my op-eds based on this research to newspaper readers around the globe. Jane Dugan, Lori OLaughlin, and Mark Wirtz have provided daily support and friendship in the English Department.

I appreciate the assistance of the staff at the British Library, the National Archive (UK), and Cleveland State Universitys Ohiolink and Interlibrary Loan departments. Alexa Frost at the Blenheim Archive and Emma Stuart at the Royal Collections Trust, Windsor, were both extremely helpful during my visits. I am grateful to the Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford University, for permission to reproduce a portrait of Henry Sacheverell and to Rachel Mehta for assistance with the image transfer. Chatham Ewing, at the Cleveland Public Library, was generous with his time and expertise in digital imaging. John Ball, at the University of Akron Library, Archival Services, was incredibly helpful, as was William Claspy, head of Special Collections at Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University.

Angie Hogan and Ellen Satrom, at the University of Virginia Press, have been a terrific team during the publishing process. Two anonymous peer reviewers offered comments that greatly improved the manuscript, and Marjorie Panell provided thoughtful suggestions for developing the epilogue. Writing this book would not have been so pleasurable without the daily companionship of my husband and daughter, Gregory and Alison Lupton. My mother, to whom I dedicate this book, was a kindred spirit and my best friend.