The Young Pretender - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905. Excerpt: ... BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE CONSIDERING the appalling amount of Jacobite literature, biographies of Prince Charles are surprisingly scanty in number. The following are the most important, though Mr. Lang's volumes easily supersede all others: Alexander C. Ewald's The Life and Times of Prime Charles Stuart (new edition. London, 1883); Carl L. Klose's Leben des Prinzen Carl aus dem Hause Stuart (Leipzig, 1842); Andrew Lang's Prince Charles Edward (London, 1900), and his Pickle the Spy; or, The Incognito of Prince Charles (London, 1897); Amedee Pichot's Histoire de Charles--Edouard, dernier Prince de la Maison de Stuart (Paris, 1830). The life of Charles's father, James III., is yet to be written. Sketches of his career are in John H. Jesse's Memoirs of the Pretenders and their Adherents (London, 1845); J. Lacroix de Maries's Histoire du Chevalier de St. Georges, Pretendant a la Couronne d'Angleterre (Limoges, 1852), and in an article in the Dictionary of National Biography. The circumstances of his romantic marriage are set forth in J. T. Gilbert's Narratives of the Detention, Liberation, and Marriage of Maria Clementina Stuart (Dublin, 1894). Mr. A. E. W. Mason's novel Clementina tells the story very delightfully and accurately. The Jacobite attempts to restore James III. are described in detail, from contemporary sources, in the present writer's The Chevalier de St. George and the Jacobite Movements in his Favour, 1701-20 (London, 1901). The recently published Calendar of the Stuart Papers belonging to His Majesty the King, preserved at Windsor Castle James's life and policy to 1716. The history of Charles's wife, Louise of Stolberg, is detailed in the following: Vernon Lee's The Countess of Albany (London, 1884); Alfred von Reumont's Die Grajin von Albany (2 vo...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151519464
- ISBN 13 9781151519467
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages56
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