Charles Edward Stuart

MC 's brother, another James Steuart , was educated at school and university and on the Grand Tour. He married Lady Frances Wemyss in 1743, and two years later, because she was ill with smallpox...

While in Italy, she met with Volta (who invented the voltaic battery) in Milan, and had dinner with the Countess of Albany , widow of Bonnie Prince Charlie (who had left him after eight years...

In middle age, JP told a somewhat unlikely tale of meeting, as a child in Edinburgh, the aged Jeannie Cameron , the Jacobite heroine who had allegedly exercised leadership, as a supporter of Bonnie Prince Charlie

The story is set in England and France in the reign of Louis XV , and features his wife, Marie Leszcynska , and his mistress, Madame de Pompadour , as well as Bonnie Prince Charlie

MF , several of whose novels had taken the form of an individual life-story, published her first biography (finished while she was pregnant with her third child), The Rash Adventurer: The Rise and Fall of...

The Macleans of Bairness, a history play by EL about Bonnie Prince Charlie , was produced by Mrs Patrick Campbell at the Criterion Theatre .

She mentions two historical one-acters which she later wrote, both on Scottish themes. One, about Bonnie Prince Charlie as a tired, disappointed exile after his attempt on the throne, was staged by the Scottish National Players

AC and her husband were both Whigs in politics, though her family had some Jacobite members. When the army of Prince Charles Edward besieged Edinburgh Castle (from 17 September 1745) AC , like others who...

EH 's political allegiance may have been dictated by the need to make a living, or by taking a satirical view of successive centres of political enthusiasm. She wrote opportunistic satire on George II while...

The story is a realistic one concerning three Scottish brothers aged from nine to five: Dickie, Robin, and Toots, who appear to be based on WP 's own sons. The children's father is an estate...

The eponymous hero is a Scotsman brought up in England, a modern man of feeling whose father is a Whig while the uncle who brought him up is a sentimental Jacobite. Visiting Scotland and then...

Jemima visits this island on holiday, and becomes the latest extramarital lover of the laird of the place, whose Christian names are Charles Edward like those of Bonnie Prince Charlie . The island seems, indeed...

Charlotte of Albany was the illegitimate daughter of Charles Edward Stuart , Bonnie Prince Charlie.

Though most recent readers have taken this pamphlet to indicate support for Charles Edward , Earla A. Wilputte believes that it is a parody of the romantic flattery typically addressed to him: a satire, therefore...

Volume one is headed with a stanza from an old Scottish ballad. (Other ballads, and quotations from Allan Ramsay , are similarly used to head chapters.) The book begins with the kind of interjection fashionable...