Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight, Volume 2: Lady Companion to the Princess Charlotte of Wales

This two-volume Autobiography by Cornelia Knight (1757–1837) was published in 1861. It was complied by the military historian Sir John Kaye from her journals and a memoir based on them, written late in life and remaining incomplete at her death. Cornelia Knight, the daughter of an admiral, was highl...

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1. Verfasser: Knight, Ellis Cornelia 1757-1837 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Kaye, John W. 1814-1876 (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1861
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge library collection. Travel, Europe
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Zusammenfassung:This two-volume Autobiography by Cornelia Knight (1757–1837) was published in 1861. It was complied by the military historian Sir John Kaye from her journals and a memoir based on them, written late in life and remaining incomplete at her death. Cornelia Knight, the daughter of an admiral, was highly educated: she knew ten languages, was skilled at painting and drawing, and published novels and poetry. In 1813 she was appointed to the household of Princess Charlotte of Wales. In 1814, the Prince Regent dismissed all his daughter's attendants, and Knight returned to a life of literature and European travel. In Volume 2, Knight continues her account of her dismissal, and a later meeting with the Princess, now happily married (though she was shortly to die in childbirth). Knight spent another twenty years in the court circles of Europe: an appendix gives further extracts from her journals and her 'anecdote book'
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (364 pages)
ISBN:9781139177023
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139177023

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