Lady Adelaide Cadogan (née Paget; 1820–1890) was a British

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and prodigious author, most noted for her seminal work on

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and

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s. She used her title in her publications and that is how she is generally styled.

Biography

Lady Adelaide Paget was born in 1820. She was the daughter of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey and Lady Charlotte Paget, née Cadogan. She was one of the train-bearers to

Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previo ...

at her 1838 coronation. She married her

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, the Honourable Frederick William Cadogan. Their grandparents were

Charles Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan Charles Sloane Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan (29 September 1728 – 3 April 1807) was a British peer and Whig politician. Early life Cadogan was the only son of Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan and his wife, the former Elizabeth Sloane. His ma ...

and his second wife, Mary Churchill. Lady Adelaide's ''Illustrated Games of Patience'' is believed to be the first-ever compendium on

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games. Originally published around 1870, it ran through many editions and is still reprinted today. In England, a 'Cadogan' has come to be used as a term for any book on patience games.

Selected works

* ''Illustrated Games of Patience.'' (1874) * ''Drawing-Room Plays, Selected and Adapted from the French''''Reprint''
Retrieved 14 Aug 2018
''Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Patience or Solitaire''
(1914).

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* English women writers 19th-century English women writers Card game book writers Daughters of British marquesses 1820 births 1890 deaths {{England-writer-stub