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
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973.
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Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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names
Carolina Oliphant Lady Nairne
BirthName: Carolina Oliphant
Her parents being fervent Jacobites, her Christian name was given in honour of Charles Edward Stuart
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Nicknames: The White Rose of Gask
Drummond, Peter Robert. Perthshire in Bygone Days: One Hundred Biographical Essays. W. B. Whittingham, 1879.
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The white rose was a Jacobite emblem.
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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...
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
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
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...