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Queenship in Britain 1660-1837 looks 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. With contributions from an international group of scholars this book brings together new approaches in gender history and court studies to present a re-evaluation of this previously neglected area in the study of the British monarchy. An explanation of these new approaches is contained in a substantial introduction. While the essays perform detailed discussions on a variety of more specific subjects, from how the foreign and Catholic wives of the restored Stuarts coped with a libertine court and a Protestant nation, to the travails of Princesses of Wales, the marriage options of royal daughters, and the question of whether Queen Adelaide (wife of William IV) was a harmless philanthropist re-establishing royal respectability or a real political influence behind the throne. -- .

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Queenship in Britain 1660-1837 looks 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. With contributions from an international group of scholars this book brings together new approaches in gender history and court studies to present a re-evaluation of this previously neglected area in the study of the British monarchy. An explanation of these new approaches is contained in a substantial introduction. While the essays perform detailed discussions on a variety of more specific subjects, from how the foreign and Catholic wives of the restored Stuarts coped with a libertine court and a Protestant nation, to the travails of Princesses of Wales, the marriage options of royal daughters, and the question of whether Queen Adelaide (wife of William IV) was a harmless philanthropist re-establishing royal respectability or a real political influence behind the throne.

Author Biography

Clarissa Campbell Orr is Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge Campus

Table of Contents

Contents
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
Index

Review

..."her introduction is an exciting contribution to a neglected issue."--J.A. Jaffe, Choice

..".her introduction is an exciting contribution to a neglected issue."--J.A. Jaffe, Choice

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Queenship in Britain 1660-1837 looks 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. With contributions from an international group of scholars this book brings together new approaches in gender history and court studies to present a re-evaluation of this previously neglected area in the study of the British monarchy. An explanation of these new approaches is contained in a substantial introduction. While the essays perform detailed discussions on a variety of more specific subjects, from how the foreign and Catholic wives of the restored Stuarts coped with a libertine court and a Protestant nation, to the travails of Princesses of Wales, the marriage options of royal daughters, and the question of whether Queen Adelaide (wife of William IV) was a harmless philanthropist re-establishing royal respectability or a real political influence behind the throne. -- .

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Now in paperback for the first time. Examines how Queens, Princesses of Wales, and royal daughters used their powers of patronage, and operated within the confines of royal family politics, between 1660 and 1837. A pioneering assessment of a neglected area, uniting new approaches offered by gender history and court studies, discussed in a substantial introduction. Examines how foreign and Catholic wives of the restored Stuarts coped with a libertine course and a Protestant nation.. Includes a reassessment of Queen Anne and her conformity to ideals of modest womanhood and an exploration of Queen Caroline as a connoisseur and collector.

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This book looks 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. With contributions from an international group of scholars this book brings together new approaches in gender history and court studies to present a re-evaluation of this previously neglected area in the study of the British monarchy.

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