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100	1		_aWard, Adolphus William, Sir, _d1837-1924
245	1	4	_aThe Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian succession
250			_aSecond edition, revised and enlarged.
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-11-15
508			_aMWS, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520			_aThe Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian Succession by Adolphus William Ward is a historical biography written in the early 20th century. It follows the life and political significance of the Electress Sophia of Hanover, emphasizing her pivotal place in securing the Protestant (Hanoverian) path to the British throne amid the religious and dynastic struggles of early modern Europe. The work situates her within the Palatine and Brunswick-Lüneburg houses and draws on rich correspondence and archival sources to blend political narrative with an intellectual portrait. The opening of the book explains that the author will foreground Sophia’s role in the British Succession while setting necessary context: the decline of the Palatine fortunes, the rise of the Hanoverian line, and the broader Protestant-Catholic conflicts. The preface details the sources—Sophia’s memoirs and voluminous letters, her exchanges with Leibniz, the Queen of Bohemia’s correspondence, diplomatic dispatches—and notes controversial Hanoverian episodes, including material on Sophia Dorothea and Königsmarck. The introductory chapter frames Sophia as “heiress of Great Britain,” highlighting her prudence and self-control and presenting the Succession as the realized form of the Protestant cause. The narrative then begins with Sophia’s birth to Frederick V and Elizabeth Stuart, recounts Elizabeth’s upbringing at Combe Abbey (including the Gunpowder Plot scare), her marriage into the Palatinate, the political gamble of accepting the Bohemian crown, the defeat at White Mountain, and the family’s exile and search for support in the Netherlands and among Protestant allies, before moving toward the later Swedish intervention and Frederick’s death—establishing the stakes and setting the stage for Sophia’s eventual prominence. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903
653			_aGreat Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Succession
653			_aSophia, Electress, consort of Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover, 1630-1714
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/electresssophiah00wardrich
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77237
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