Princess Augusta of Saxe Gotha

Standard Name: Augusta of Saxe Gotha, Princess

Used Form: Augusta, Princess of Wales

Connections

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Employer	Anne Irwin	AI travelled to Germany, appointed by Queen Caroline to escort Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha to England to marry the Prince of Wales . Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Reception	Charlotte Lennox	The Gentleman's Magazine published two poems about this volume, one in June 1749 and one in November 1750. One calls the author Britain's Sappho . Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 19: 278; 20: 518 With the second piece the GM...

Timeline

27 April 1736

Frederick Prince of Wales married Princess Augusta , who had first met him two days before, when she landed in England.

Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.

6 (1736): 230

Backscheider, Paula R. “The Shadow of an Author: Eliza Haywood”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.

, No. 1, 1998, pp. 79-102.

1 May 1749

Elizabeth Chudleigh created a sensation by appearing at a masquerade in the character of Iphigenia, in a dress so transparent that she was as good as naked.

Rizzo, Betty. Companions Without Vows: Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women. University of Georgia Press, 1994.

1759

The royal botanical gardens were founded at Kew outside London, by Augusta, Princess of Wales .

Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

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