ZOMG who was the (presumably) Victorian prig who committed these acts of vile censorship to protect English readers from Wilhelmine‘s Rokoko frankness?!?
(I know that when her memoirs were finally published, there was a shortened German edition and a complete French edition, but my great aunt had the shortened German edition and even that one has the Dresden interlude with naked lady (and FW after some oggling recalling his teenage son and dragging him out of the room), Orzelska and Fritz getting deflowered, so I feel safe in blaming British censorship instead of assuming they were simply translating the first German edition.)
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Re: Wilhelmine's memoirs
Date: 2019-11-03 09:50 am (UTC)(I know that when her memoirs were finally published, there was a shortened German edition and a complete French edition, but my great aunt had the shortened German edition and even that one has the Dresden interlude with naked lady (and FW after some oggling recalling his teenage son and dragging him out of the room), Orzelska and Fritz getting deflowered, so I feel safe in blaming British censorship instead of assuming they were simply translating the first German edition.)