Queen Caroline and Sir William Gell A Study in Royal Patronage and Classical Scholarship /

• Main Author: Thompson, Jason (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Queenship and Power
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; Intellectual life-History.; Civilization-History.; Women.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Intellectual Studies.; Cultural History.; Women's Studies.

This book explores the relationship between Queen Caroline, one of the most enigmatic characters in Regency England, and Sir William Gell, the leading classical scholar of his day. Despised and rejected by her husband, Caroline created a sphere and court of her own through patronage of scholarship....