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Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Calderwood | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Porter | 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 |
Literary Setting | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | 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 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Margaret Forster | 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... |
Performance of text | Naomi Jacob | 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 |
Performance of text | Edith Lyttelton | The Macleans of Bairness, a history play by EL
about Bonnie Prince Charlie
, was produced by Mrs Patrick Campbell
at the Criterion Theatre
. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 797 Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press, 1994. 84 |
politics | Eliza Haywood | |
politics | Alison Cockburn | |
Textual Features | Antonia Fraser | 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... |
Textual Features | Susan Tweedsmuir | Charlotte of Albany was the illegitimate daughter of Charles Edward Stuart
, Bonnie Prince Charlie. |
Textual Features | Eliza Haywood | 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... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Helme | 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... |
Textual Features | Naomi Jacob | Characters in this book (stereotypes all, according to Paul Bailey) include Haydn
, Mozart
(a little, white-faced genius), Casanova
(possessor of a strange, twisted smile), and the Young Pretender
. Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001. 155 |
Textual Features | May Laffan | All of ML
's short stories mark class through idiom. In this case she had mastered an unfamiliar diction by visiting Edinburgh, and her lower-class characters speak broad Scots while middle-class characters speak Standard... |
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