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Maria Theresa Empress of Austria
Standard Name: Maria Theresa,, Empress of Austria
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Emily Lawless | EL
followed Maelcho with A Colonel of the Empire: From the Private Papers of Mangan O'Driscoll, Late of the Imperial Service of Austria, and a Knight of the Military Order of the [sic] Maria Theresa |
| Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | The writer of the preface takes up the cudgels for Centlivre in feminist style, dwelling on the obstacles she faced as a woman, and invoking the achievements of other women like Anne Dacier
, May Drummond |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Antonia Fraser | The film appears almost deliberately to ignore some leading features of the book: its concentration on Marie-Antoinette's Austrian background and the role played in her life in France by her mother
's largely ill-judged advice... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Brownell Jameson | Her subjects reach back to the semi-legendary such as Semiramis
and Cleopatra
. ABJ
includes from England Queen Elizabeth
and Queen Anne
and from Europe Maria Theresa
and Catherine the Great
. |
Timeline
9 October 1740: It was this day in England when the Emperor...
National or international item
9 October 1740
It was this day in England when the Emperor of Austria, Charles VI
, died and was succeeded by his daughter, Maria Theresa
.
Browning, Reed. The War of the Austrian Succession. St Martin’s Press, 1993.
37
Anderson, Matthew Smith. The War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-1748. Longman, 1995.
7-8, 59, 61-62
The day of the emperor's death was 20 October New Style.
14 January 1741: Frederick II of Prussia declared that Silesia,...
National or international item
14 January 1741
Frederick II
of Prussia declared that Silesia, which he planned to take from Maria Theresa
of Austria, was as good as conquered.
Browning, Reed. The War of the Austrian Succession. St Martin’s Press, 1993.
43
Browning, Reed. The War of the Austrian Succession. St Martin’s Press, 1993.
43
1744-5: The Jews were expelled from Prague by Maria...
National or international item
1744-5
The Jews were expelled from Prague by Maria Theresa
; a few years later they were permitted to return, after a strong campaign by themselves and others.
Wasserstein, Bernard. “Forever unwilling”. London Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2000, pp. 38-9.
38
7 October 1748: The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ended the War...
National or international item
7 October 1748
The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ended the War of the Austrian Succession, known in North America as King George's War.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
168
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
555
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
743
January 1756: Britain broke with the Old System by allying...
National or international item
January 1756
Britain broke with the Old System by allying itself with Frederick II
's Prussia instead of Maria Theresa
's Austria (which it had supported in the War of the Austrian Succession). The stage was now...
January 1756: Britain broke with the Old System by allying...
National or international item
January 1756
Britain broke with the Old System by allying itself with Frederick II
's Prussia instead of Maria Theresa
's Austria (which it had supported in the War of the Austrian Succession). The stage was now...
17 December 1779: It was disapprovingly noted what immense...
National or international item
17 December 1779
It was disapprovingly noted what immense sums of public money Marie-Antoinette
was paying to her personal friend the comtesse de Polignac
.
Roulston, Christine. “Separating the Inseparables: Female Friendship and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century France”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 2, 1998–1989, pp. 215-31. 225 and n45
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