Description
Book SynopsisLooks at the lives of successive Queens, Princesses of Wales and royal daughters, and considers how they used their powers of patronage and operated within the confines of royal family politics. This book presents fresh approaches in gender history and court studies.
Table of ContentsContents
Editor’s acknowledgements
List of contributors
List of illustrations
Introduction: Court studies, gender and women’s history 1660-1837 – Clarissa Campbell Orr
1. Catherine of Braganza and cultural politics – Edward Corp
2. Mary Beatrice of Modena: the ‘second bless’d of womankind’? – Andrew Barclay
3. Queen Anne: victim of her virtues? – Robert Bucholz
4. Queen Caroline of Ansbach and the European princely museum tradition – Joanna Marschner
5. Queens-in-waiting: Caroline of Ansbach and Augusta of Saxe-Coburg as Princess of Wales – Christine Gerrard
6. Anne of Hanover and Orange (1707-59) as patron and practitioner of the arts – Richard G. King
7. The daughters of George II: marriage and dynastic politics – Vanessa Baker-Smith
8. ‘To play what game she pleased without observation’: Princess Augusta and the political drama of succession, 1736-56 – John L. Bullion
9. Queen Charlotte, ‘Scientific Queen’ – Clarissa Campbell Orr
10. Queen Adelaide: malign influence or consort maligned? - A. W. Purdue
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