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cahn ([personal profile] cahn) wrote2019-10-21 08:56 pm
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Yuletide tags are out: Frederician version

Come join us in this crazy Frederick the Great fandom and learn more about all these crazy associated people, like the star-crossed and heartbreaking romance between Maria Theresia's daughter Maria Christina and her daughter-in-law Isabella, wow.

OK, so, there are FOURTEEN characters nominated:
Anna Karolina Orzelska (Frederician RPF)
Elisabeth Christine von Preußen | Elisabeth Christine Queen of Prussia (Frederician RPF)
Francesco Algarotti (Frederician RPF)
François-Marie Arouet | Voltaire (Frederician RPF)
Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great (Frederician RPF)
Hans Hermann Von Katte (Frederician RPF)
Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor (Frederician RPF)
Maria Theresia | Maria Theresa of Austria (Frederician RPF)
Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf (Frederician RPF)
Peter Karl Christoph von Keith (Frederician RPF)
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (Frederician RPF)
Stanisław August Poniatowski (Frederician RPF)
Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758) (Frederician RPF)
Yekatarina II Alekseyevna | Catherine the Great of Russia (Frederician RPF)

This means some fourth person kindly nominated Algarotti and -- I think? -- Stanislaw August Poniatowski! YAY! Thank you fourth person! Come be our friend! :D Yuletide is so great!

I am definitely requesting Maria Theresia, Wilhelmine, and Fritz (Put them in a room together. Shake. How big is the explosion?), and thinking about Elisabeth Christine, but maybe not this year.

I am also declaring this post another Frederician post, as the last one was getting out of hand. I think I'll still use that one as the overall index to these, though, to keep all the links in one place.

(seriously, every time I think the wild stories are done there is ANOTHER one)
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Re: Wilhelmine's memoirs

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard 2019-11-03 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know if he's who made the decision to censor, but the author of the introductory essay to the bowdlerized version is listed as William D. Howells, 1877. Sadly (for me as a resident, although not native, of Boston), the title page has the publishing company and location listed as "Boston, Ticknor and Company, 211 Tremont Street." I've half a mind to walk down there and give their ghosts a piece of my mind! ;)
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Re: Wilhelmine's memoirs

[personal profile] selenak 2019-11-03 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
Well, one of Howell's feats as listed in the wiki entry is "translating pieces from French, Spanish and German", so he could very well be responsible. Otherwise his entry sounds sympathetic enough, though if "Howells viewed realism as "nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material", then censoring dead German princesses writing in French about their insane family does not fit!

Otoh, behold my latest icon, courtesy of your screencap!
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Re: Wilhelmine's memoirs

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard 2019-11-03 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww, what a wonderful icon! <3 I'm glad I was able to be of assistance.