Charles Edward Stuart

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...

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...

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 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

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...

Like other Scotswomen of the gentry class whose names are associated with the eighteenth-century ballad revival, AC frequently marked occasions in her circle with personal and occasional poems. Only a small proportion of her output...

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...