The authorial worlds of Jane Barker and Delarivier Manley reflect the politico-religious uncertainties at the turn from the late seventeenth into the eighteenth century. Barker’s contexts are principally religious and monarchical: the setting for the frame narrative of her 1713 Love Intrigues: Or the History and Amours of Bosvil and Galesia is the garden adjacent to the palace of St. Germain-en-Laye near Paris, where the deposed English king, James II, held court until his death in 1701. James had succeeded his brother Charles II in 1685, but when the birth of a son in 1688 aggravated fears of a Roman Catholic dynasty, William of Orange and his wife Mary, James’s Protestant daughter, invaded England in what became known as the Glorious Revolution. On William and Mary’s assumption of the throne, Barker’s family, with Royalist connections reaching back to the court of Charles I, joined nearly 400,000 others who followed James into what they initially assumed would be a temporary exile. But by 1690, the Jacobite forces seemed to have been decisively routed and William and Mary joined the War of the League of Augsburg against France (which along with the War of the Spanish Succession appears in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy). In their St. Germain conversation, Galesia and her friend Lucasia refer to this “War between France and the Allies” as being “almost like a Civil War, Friend against Friend, Brother against Brother, Father against Son, and so on.” Their own divided loyalties reproduce the internecine conflict: in exile as supporters of the Stuart cause, they are nevertheless tied to England through birth and upbringing. Jane Barker herself, with the exception of occasional visits to London and the family estates in England, remained at the Jacobite court from 1689 to 1704.