Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight
Lady Companion to the Princess Charlotte of Wales

This two-volume Autobiography by Cornelia Knight (1757–1837), Lady Companion to the Princess Charlotte of Wales, was published in 1861.

Ellis Cornelia Knight (Author), John William Kaye (Edited by)

9781108044851, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 February 2012

366 pages, 1 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.47 kg

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.

Introduction
1. Parentage of Miss Knight
2. Paris
3. Montpellier
4. Rome
5. Residence at Rome
6. Naples
7. Sir William Hamilton
8. Palermo and the Sicilians
9. Departure from Palermo
10. Society in England
11. State of the Court
12. Life at Warwick House
13. The letter in The Morning Chronicle
14. Life at Warwick House
15. Festivities at Carlton House
16. Return to Warwick House
17. The great frost
18. The allied sovereigns
Appendix.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]