Sylvana Tomaselli
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Sylvana Palma Windsor, Countess of St Andrews(néeTomaselli,previouslyJones;born 28 May 1957) is a Canadian-born academic and historian. By virtue of marriage she is a member of theHouse of Windsorand is related to theBritish royal familyas the wife ofGeorge Windsor, Earl of St Andrews,eldest son ofPrince Edward, Duke of Kent,second cousin ofKing Charles III.
She is a devoutRoman Catholic.A noted historian and lecturer at theUniversity of Cambridge,she is also known professionally as Dr. Sylvana Tomaselli.[1]
Early life and ancestry
[edit]Tomaselli was born on 28 May 1957 atPlacentia,Newfoundland,daughter of Maximilian Karl Tomaselli (formerly ofSalzburg) by his wife JosianenéePreschez.[2]By birth, Sylvana belongs to the Austrian branch of the nobleTomaselli familythat rose to prominent positions in bothItalyandAustria.[3]She was educated in Canada and England.[4]
Marriages and family
[edit]She married firstly, on 25 December 1977 atVancouver,John Paul Jones, son ofCaptainGeoffrey Jones of Barbados, but they divorced in 1981 without children.[5]
She married secondly, on 9 January 1988 atLeithin Scotland,George, Earl of St Andrews,[6]and they have three children:[7]
- Edward Edmund Maximilian George Windsor, Lord Downpatrick(born 2 December 1988 atSt Mary's HospitalinLondon)
- Lady Marina Charlotte Alexandra Katharine Helen Windsor(born 30 September 1992 at theRosie HospitalinCambridge)
- Lady Amelia Sophia Theodora Mary Margaret Windsor(born 24 August 1995 at the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge)
Lady Saint Andrews' Roman Catholicism no longer precludes her husband's succession to the throne. Two of her children, Edward (2003) and Marina (2008), were received into the Roman Catholic Church, thereby surrendering their places in theline of successionto thethronesof theCommonwealth realms,although Lord and Lady St Andrews' younger daughter, Amelia, is still in remainder to theBritishCrown.
Academic career
[edit]Tomaselli, who receivedBA(UBC),MA(York, Ontario) and MA (Cantab) degrees, became aFellowofSt John's College, Cambridgein 2004. She specialises in French and British political theory in the 18th century, especially the history of womanhood, and has written aboutJohn Locke,Jean-Jacques Rousseau,David Hume,Mary WollstonecraftandJohn Stuart Mill.She is the translator of Book II of theSeminarofJacques Lacan,The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis.She teaches the three History of Political Theory Papers and is an affiliated Lecturer of theFacultiesof History as well as of Social and Political Sciences.[1]
She is a founding member of the European Centre for the Philosophy of Gender,Siegen,Germany,[8]and is currently Director of Studies inHistoryand Social & Political Sciences atSt John's Collegein theUniversity of Cambridge,and a tutor for postgraduates.[9]
Tomaselli was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Historical Societyin 2015.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ab"Doctor Tomaselli | St John's College".Joh.cam.ac.uk.Retrieved15 January2022.
- ^"Sylvana Palma Tomaselli: Genealogics".genealogics.org.Retrieved20 December2023.
- ^"Il tesoro nascosto della famiglia Tomaselli rivive nella mostra di Arcore".Il Cittadino di Monza e Brianza(in Italian). 17 September 2015.Retrieved20 December2023.
- ^"Dr Sylvana Tomaselli | Faculty of History University of Cambridge".hist.cam.ac.uk.Retrieved20 December2023.
- ^"Genealogia di Sylvana Palma Tomaselli".Geneanet(in Italian).Retrieved20 December2023.
- ^"Earl of St Andrews".Debrett's. Archived fromthe originalon 6 September 2012.
- ^Cope, Rebecca (20 January 2021)."Sylvana Tomaselli, the Countess of St Andrews, has penned a new book about Mary Wollstonecraft".Tatler.Retrieved11 August2022.
- ^"Europäisches Zentrum für philosophische Geschlechterforschung (EZPG), Siegen — EuroGender".Retrieved27 October2016.
- ^"Dr Sylvana P Tomaselli - StJohns".joh.cam.ac.uk.Retrieved15 January2022.
- ^FRHistS List TArchived8 January 2016 at Wikiwix
- 1957 births
- Living people
- 20th-century French women writers
- Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge
- British courtesy countesses
- British women historians
- Canadian people of Austrian descent
- Canadian people of French descent
- Canadian people of Italian descent
- Canadian Roman Catholics
- Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge
- Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
- House of Windsor
- Mary Wollstonecraft scholars
- People from Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Translators of Jacques Lacan
- Tomaselli family
- University of British Columbia alumni
- York University alumni