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    Volume 1
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 May 2012
    16 February 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139177016
    9781108044851
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139177016
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.47kg, 366 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Social and Cultural Anthropology, British History after 1450, European History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Social and Cultural Anthropology, British History after 1450, European History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
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    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. Volume 1 covers her childhood, time spent in Italy with Sir William and Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson, her appointment as companion to Princess Charlotte, the princess's refusal, in 1814, to marry the Prince of Orange, and the subsequent events which led to Knight's dismissal.

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