Notes
1 See for instance S. Knott and B. Taylor (eds), Women, Gender and the Enlightenment (Basingstoke, 2005); K. O’Brien, Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge, 2009).
2 D. Goodman, The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment (Ithaca and London, 1994). Goodman argues that in their role as salonnières women were essential to the Enlightenment; E. Eger, Blue Stockings: Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism (London, 2010).
3 H. Smith, Georgian Monarchy: Politics and culture, 1714–1760 (Cambridge, 2006), p. 202.
4 D. Sorkin, The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews and Catholics from London to Vienna (Princeton, 2008); J.D. Burson and U.L. Lehner (eds), Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History (Notre Dame, Indiana, 2014). For details on scholars relevant to Scotland and England see the essays by Gabriel Glickman and Mark Goldie.
5 See for instance essays by Campbell Orr, Schaich and Taylor in M. Schaich (ed.), Monarchy and Religion: The Transformation of Royal Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe (London, 2007); and A. Thompson, ‘The Confessional Dimension’, in B. Simms and T. Riotte (eds), The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714–1785 (Cambridge, 2007), pp. 161-82.
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Julie Farguson
Dr Julie Farguson is a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. Julie’s research is centred on the British monarchy of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and her most recent publication is ‘Dynastic Politics, International Protestantism and Royal Rebellion: Prince George of Denmark and the Glorious Revolution’, English Historical Review, 550 (2016), pp. 540-69.