Bonnie Prince Charlie: A biography of Charles Edward Stuart - Hardcover

Kybett, Susan MacLean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0396084966 ISBN 13: 9780396084969

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1988

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About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Kybett was granted access to the Stuart papers, which, according to the author, contain never-before-published information on exiled Catholic King James II of Great Britain and Ireland, grandfather of Charles, the Young Pretender. Born in 1720 in Rome, Charlie was not so bonnie as legend romanticizes him but a selfish, mean traitor to the Highland Scots who fought to make him king, displacing the usurping Hanover. Although other historians have been equally judgmental of the cowardly prince, who deserted his partisans at the Battle of Culloden, few express the anger of Kybett, a native Scot, particularly in describing the fate of the loyal Highlanders. Unfortunately, her writing is sometimes flawed by such slips as "they could have gone to the Hanoverian camp with no impunity." The biography, however, succeeds in illuminating the 18th century as affected by the Young Pretender who died in 1788 with few to mourn him. Illustrations not seen by PW.
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From Library Journal:

Bonnie Prince Charlie long has fascinated historians, not to mention Scottish romantics who longingly look back on what might have been. This is the latest in an ongoing string of lives dealing with the great hope of the Stuarts. Though charmingly written, the book has some significant shortcomings. There is little evidence that the author has delved deeply into recent scholarship on the subject, and the promise to study "his times and the problems he faced as an exiled prince" does not materialize. Still, research in the primary sources is solid. James A. Casada, Winthrop Coll., Rock Hill, S.C.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co.
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0396084966
• ISBN 13: 9780396084969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 343