Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Charles Edward Stuart
Standard Name: Stuart, Charles Edward
Used Form: Young Pretender
Used Form: Bonnie Prince Charlie
Connections
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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 | 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 |
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... |
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... |
names | Carolina Oliphant Lady Nairne |
|
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 | Sir Walter Scott | 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... |
Textual Features | Winifred Peck | 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... |
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... |
Timeline
2 August 1745: Prince Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender...
National or international item
2 August 1745
Prince Charles Edward Stuart
(the Young Pretender or Bonnie Prince Charlie) landed with seven followers at Loch Moidart.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
7: 260-1
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
October 1745: The Young Pretender's Jacobite army crossed...
National or international item
October 1745
The Young Pretender
's Jacobite army crossed the border from Scotland into England.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
412
Clark, Jonathan Charles Douglas. Samuel Johnson: Literature, religion and English cultural politics from Restoration to Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
60n9
5 November 1745: The first number appeared of Henry Fielding's...
Writing climate item
5 November 1745
The first number appeared of Henry Fielding
's anti-Jacobite periodical The True Patriot: and the history of our own times.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
By 4 December 1745: The Young Pretender's Jacobite army arrived...
National or international item
By 4 December 1745
The Young Pretender
's Jacobite army arrived at Derby on their march south towards London.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
3: 262n2
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
412, 419
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
3: 262n2
6 December 1745: After mustering 6,500 men, seizing Edinburgh,...
National or international item
6 December 1745
After mustering 6,500 men, seizing Edinburgh, and forcing his way into England as far as Derby, Charles Edward Stuart
, the Young Pretender, retreated to Scotland, seeing no chances of success in Derby.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
11: 636
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
1: 529
16 April 1746: The (mostly Highland) forces of Charles Edward...
National or international item
16 April 1746
The (mostly Highland) forces of Charles Edward Stuart
, and with them the Jacobite cause, were defeated at the Battle of Culloden in Scotland by forces (mostly English) loyal to George II
, led by...
27-28 June 1746: Flora Macdonald, in her early twenties, sailed...
National or international item
27-28 June 1746
Flora Macdonald
, in her early twenties, sailed from the island of Benbecula to Skye with Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart
) disguised as her maid.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
30 July 1746: Officers of the Manchester Regiment, which...
National or international item
30 July 1746
Officers of the Manchester Regiment
, which had fought for Prince Charles Edward
at the battle of Culloden, were hanged, drawn, and quartered in London.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
416
18 August 1746: Lord Kilmarnock and Lord Balmerino, who had...
National or international item
18 August 1746
Lord Kilmarnock
and Lord Balmerino
, who had fought in the Jacobite rebellion led by Prince Charles Edward
, were beheaded in London; a huge crowd watched.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
416
1752: Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender)...
National or international item
1752
Charles Edward Stuart
(the Young Pretender) made his second top-secret visit to England, sounding out support for another potential bid for the throne.
Clark, Jonathan Charles Douglas. Samuel Johnson: Literature, religion and English cultural politics from Restoration to Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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