Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 3

Wraxall, Lascelles, Sir, 1828-1865Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 3.0
Word count
580K words
Chapters
58

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English Originals Historical Figures Historical ReappraisalPolitical AllegoryLegendary LivesFate and FortuneLove EntanglementsPower GameComplex HumanityFemale Perspective

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 3 (of 3) by WraxallAuthor: Wraxall, Lascelles, Sir, 1828-1865,Language: English, Class: DL: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Release Date: Aug 17, 2017

Editor's review

This is the third and final volume of Sir Lascelles Wraxall's biography of Queen Caroline Matilda. A nineteenth-century life, it continues a narrative centred on court politics, marital strife and Northern European royal relations, in a style marked by the expansiveness and moral judgement of Victorian biography. The third volume typically serves to close the arc and deliver the ending, and holds documentary value for readers interested in the Danish royal house and eighteenth-century Northern European court history. It can be read both as historical narrative and as a text for observing how a nineteenth-century British author wrote about a female royal. Note that this is a public-domain English electronic edition, lacking a modern scholarly introduction and notes, and that its renderings of place and personal names differ from current conventions; readers will need some patience with English and a background in Northern European history.

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Reading tips

  1. Begin with an overview of Caroline Matilda's life and the Danish court background before entering the closing narrative of Volume 3.
  2. Keep a running list of personal and place names as you read, and note where the nineteenth-century author's judgements diverge from present-day historiography.
  3. Where possible, read alongside the first two volumes or related works on Northern European history to grasp the closing logic of the whole.

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FAQ

Can I read Volume 3 without having read the first two? You can, but understanding the relationships and the causes of events will be difficult. Volume 3 focuses on closure and outcome; it is advisable at least to grasp an overview of Caroline Matilda's life, or to catch up on the main threads of the first two volumes before starting this one.
Is the historical perspective objective? It is a nineteenth-century biography carrying the moral judgements and narrative habits of a British author of the period, not a modern scholarly monograph. Read it as both historical account and period text, and distinguish the author's evaluations from verifiable fact.
Does the electronic edition include notes and an introduction? This is a public-domain electronic text that generally preserves only the original body, without a modern scholarly introduction, notes, or a table matching personal and place names. Readers will need to draw on background materials and be patient with old-style name renderings.

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About the author

Wraxall, Lascelles, Sir, 1828-1865 Author

Sir Lascelles Wraxall (1828–1865) was a nineteenth-century British writer whose life and nationality are poorly documented in publicly available sources, and who is known to present-day readers mainly through three historical works. The library holds three of his works, all centred on Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark, namely volumes 1, 2 and 3 of Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda. The book takes the life and times of this eighteenth-century queen as its subject, combining biography with historical narrative and foregrounding the interplay between personal fate and court politics. The three-volume scale suggests a fairly systematic handling of the relevant sources, with a narrative style that emphasises the unfolding of events and the portrayal of character. Given the limited information, his writing background and full career await further research, and the works held here remain the main basis for understanding his output.