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020			_a9780008121990 _qhardback
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100	1		_aDennison, Matthew, _eauthor. _9111560
245	1	4	_aThe first iron lady : _ba life of Caroline of Ansbach / _cMatthew Dennison.
264		1	_aLondon : _bWilliam Collins, _c2017.
300			_ax, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some color), genealogical tables
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aPart 1: Germany -- I. Princess of Ansbach: 'Bred up in the softness of a court' -- II. Electoral princess: 'the affections of the heart' -- Part 2: Britain -- I. Princess of Wales: 'majesty with affability' -- II. Leicester House: 'not a day without suffering' -- III. Queen: 'constancy and greatness'.
520			_a"History has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach, yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as ‘the cleverest queen consort Britain ever had’. The intellectual superior of her buffoonish husband George II, Caroline is credited with hastening the Enlightenment to Britain through her sponsorship of red-hot debates about science, religion, philosophy and the nature of the universe. Encouraged by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, she championed inoculation; inspired by her friends Leibniz and Samuel Clarke, she mugged up on Newtonian physics; she embraced a salon culture which promoted developments in music, literature and garden design; she was a regular theatre-goer who loved the opera, gambling and dancing. Her intimates marvelled at the breadth of her interests. She was, said Lord Egmont, curious in everything’. Caroline acted as Regent four times while her husband returned to Hanover, and during those periods she possessed authority over all domestic matters. No subsequent royal woman has exercised power on such a scale. So why has history forgotten this extraordinary queen? In this magnificent biography, the first for over seventy years, Matthew Dennison seeks to reverse this neglect. The First Iron Lady uncovers the complexities of Caroline’s multifaceted life: the child of a minor German princeling who, through intelligence, determination and a dash of sex appeal, rose to occupy one of the great positions of the world and did so with distinction, élan and a degree of cynical realism. It is a remarkable portrait of an eighteenth-century woman of great political astuteness and ambition, a radical icon of female power." -- _cTaken from dust jacket.
600	0	0	_aCaroline, _cQueen, consort of George II, King of Great Britain, _d1683-1737. _967070
650		0	_aQueens _zGreat Britain _xBiography. _944474
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xHistory _yGeorge II, 1727-1760. _915993
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xCourt and courtiers _xHistory _y18th century. _915643
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