Across fifty-four years, Anne, Lady Halkett produced at least twenty-two volumes of manuscripts that she referred to as her “Books.” According to Halkett, the contents of those volumes are “select” and “occasional” meditations; that is, the former are exegetical works on biblical texts or liturgical practices, and the latter on anything from the weather or domestic affairs to the execution of Charles I, the Restoration of the Monarchy, and the “Glorious Revolution.” Halkett’s writing, therefore, covers topics that today would be identified as arising from both the “personal” and “political” spheres. Indeed, this division was recognized in contemporary terms by her eighteenth-century biographer, Simon Couper, when he claimed that “there was nothing of moment either in publick affairs, or in more privat occurrences which came to her notice; which, she did not make the subject of a serious meditation and reflection.”