... University Press 2022 materiality narrativity memoirs queenliness Queen Charlotte Charlotte Papendiek began writing her memoirs in 1833 when she was sixty-eight years old. For the next seven years, she wrote sporadically, until her death in 1840. Her memoirs begin with Princess Charlotte's...

... Linnaeus, Carl. Linnaeus’ Philosophia Botanica, trans. Stephen Freer (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2006). Pp. 402. 28 ills. £35 paper. ISBN 0-19-856934-3 López-Vidriero, María Luisa. The Polished Cornerstone of the Temple: Queenly Libraries of the Enlightenment (London: British Library, 2005). Pp. 83...

..., with a particular emphasis on the queen of the species, and the often unstable meaning of her queenliness, fl uctuating as this sometimes did between an imperious regality and a more “everywoman” ordinariness. As feminist scholarship on the eighteenth century has shown, defi nitions and cultural assumptions...

..., . . . beautiful” suggests pleasure at the aesthetic fit between the deliberate movements of a large body, or the queenly move- ments of an important body, and the grace of ballooning, a pleasure notice- ably free from the sexual attention she feared to attract on the ground. She was further liberated from...