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The First Iron Lady - A Life of Caroline of Ansbach (Paperback, Epub Edition)
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The First Iron Lady - A Life of Caroline of Ansbach (Paperback, Epub Edition)
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'A brilliant study of a brilliant woman' LUCY WORSLEY 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, elan 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.
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