Charles Edward Stuart

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...

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...

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...

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...

CO published the last of her novels, Over the Water, which fictionalises the escape of the Young Pretender or Bonny Prince Charlie , through the help of Flora Macdonald , after the second Jacobite Rebellion.

The same year as her final historical novel—about the Young Pretender—CO chose the same person as subject for her earliest historical biography, Prince Charles Edward, written for Duckworth 's Great Lives series.

The earliest of CMT 's juvenile plays was a historical one, The Iron Mask, which she finished in 1839 and dedicated to her father with thanks for his help with the plot and characters....

EH published A Letter from H— G— , Esq. . . . to the Young Chevalier, an anonymous pamphlet probably by her, in which a gentlemen of his bedchamber addresses Prince Charles Edward , dated 1750.