Seven Sisters
Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe’s First Family
Book • 2026
Veronica Buckley’s 'Seven Sisters' follows the lives of Maria Theresia’s seven daughters, tracing their marriages, politics, and personal struggles across European courts during the revolutionary era.
Drawing on extensive letters and diaries, Buckley reconstructs family dynamics, public roles, and responses to events like smallpox and the French Revolution.
The book emphasizes personal voices and primary sources to illuminate each sister’s character and choices.
It situates their stories within larger political and social transformations of late eighteenth-century Europe.
Buckley also examines how reputation, gendered attacks, and changing notions of authority affected these women’s lives and legacies.
Drawing on extensive letters and diaries, Buckley reconstructs family dynamics, public roles, and responses to events like smallpox and the French Revolution.
The book emphasizes personal voices and primary sources to illuminate each sister’s character and choices.
It situates their stories within larger political and social transformations of late eighteenth-century Europe.
Buckley also examines how reputation, gendered attacks, and changing notions of authority affected these women’s lives and legacies.
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