Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France

The title of this last book, adapting from the drinking song about girls sung by Charles Surface in Richard Brinsley Sheridan 's The School for Scandal, suggests the attitude taken to the high-living behaviour...

Georgiana did not restrict herself to this circle. She made some eminent older friends in the world of literature and culture, like Mary Delany , Elizabeth Montagu , and Samuel Johnson . From 1777 she...

Wherever they went the Knights always met, and always admired, members of the relevant royal family. On a visit to the Palace of Versailles during their time in Paris, they were able to see Louis XVI

Apart from the prince (who was named in registering the birth and alluded to in the little girl's baptismal names, Georgina Augusta Frederica), possible fathers included Charles Wyndham (son of Lord Egremont), and Lord Cholmondeley

GE 's relationship with the duc d'Orléans is known to her readers only from her account of him in the days when he had moved on to other women and was increasingly showing a sympathy...

CM was very close to her younger sister Anne , her only living sibling not confined to an institution. Anne, who bore a striking resemblance to Marie Antoinette , worked as a restorer and...

In June 1918 EBO 's mother, who had been staying with her in England, began to be worn down by her status as enemy alien, and travelled back to Hungary. She was staying with a...

For many years HB was romantically linked to Madame de Berny , a god-daughter of Louis XVI and Marie-Antionette . He was devastated by her death in 1836.

GC was born at the home of a maternal aunt, Margaret Pitt , wife of William Morton Pitt. A beautiful woman, Georgiana's aunt moved among the leading figures of her day. She spent time at...

Her time at at St Stephens and later at Annie Wright Episcopal Boarding Schoolwere marked by self discovery and intellectual growth, as she actively sought to broaden her horizons and challege her beliefs. She...

Her early (though not quite so early as was thought before Alix Nathan 's research) and notorious love-affairs made her sexuality, luridly represented, an important element in her public persona. Many cartoons circulated which represented...

This volume combines prose stories for children with a few poems suitable for adult readers. E. H. Plumptre later quoted two entire poems from this book in his memoir of SW which was published...