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Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France
Standard Name: Marie-Antoinette,, Queen of France
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Friends, Associates | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | 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... |
Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | AF
published her next historical biography, Marie Antoinette
: The Journey. Foreman, Amanda. “Unfit for a queen”. Guardian Unlimited. Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, pp. 16-19. 19 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | 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... |
Occupation | Grace Elliott | Her biographers, indeed, wonder if she may have been a spy. She spoke to an agent of d'Orléans
in Brussels; on a later visit she carried a letter there for Marie-Antoinette
; she may perhaps... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Grace Elliott | GE
concentrates on her Revolution experiences; the rest of her life-story remains untold. Her work bears the marks of its birth as oral history. She presents the French Revolution in black and white moral terms... |
politics | Grace Elliott | GE
(who by her own account seldom missed a historic occasion) was present when Marie-Antoinette
went to the theatre, the Comédie Italienne, with her two eldest children: her last public appearance before her execution. Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. Rodale Press. 39-41 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grace Elliott | 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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grace Elliott | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach | EMA
goes into some detail about the French court and royal family from the time that she lived at Versailles, pausing too to do justice to the talents of Madame Genlis, if only in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Chatterton | 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... |
Textual Features | Hélène Barcynska | The eponymous heroine of The Activities (officially named Lavinia but always called Lavie) is an American railroad heiress, whose father arranges for her to be introduced into English high society by Lady Loamington, who badly... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Honoré de Balzac | 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. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
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