In Hamilton's rendition, the dogs are "miserable curs", and are meant metaphorically as descriptions of the unworthy Hohenzollern siblings critisizing their great and wonderful brother.
OMFG, that is some dishonest scholarship right there. At least I think MacDonogh's "source doesn't actually say that" errors are due to incompetence, not malice.
Fritz: is strict but fair with the casheering.
AW: goes home in even more defeatist gloom and dies.
(Any intermittent verbal abuse by Fritz via correspondance, or refusal to see AW? Does not happen.)
Sadly, this is more or less MacDonogh, over 100 years later.
leaves entirely out anything that makes Fritz sound bad, i.e., the majority of the letter
*spit-take* Yeah, you'd have to! Mind you, we've seen there's kind of an amazing amount of this kind of selectiveness in Preuss's choices for what to include as well.
Since I've got Agatha Christie on the brain: come on, people, if the fact will not fit the theory (Fritz was chill), you let the theory go, not the facts!
Foreign diplomacy? Eh. Heinrich travelled to Sweden just for family reasons, and then Fritz had to practically force him to go to Catherine next, and then he just got feted there, and fine, he and Catherine got along really well, but politically all the action was between Fritz and Catherine and Heinrich was just sort of there. And later he had to be practically forced to go to Russia again.
OMG.
I am very annoyed that I hadn't heard about the invitation earlier; I could have familiarized you with so many issues before hand.
Haha. He could have Fritzplained so many things, Heinrich!
Also: Heinrich's entire foreign policy, says Hamilton, can be summed up by "alliance with France" (since comments on Russia and Sweden on his part do not exist in Hamilton's world, neither before nor after Fritz' death), and the sole reason why he was advising this even post revolution was because he was such a Francophile that even a French Revolution was okay by him.
Okaaaay. I'm with you that both AW and Heinrich learned a thing or two about the downsides of absolute monarchy even in a financially solvent country.
Now, in the first volume, dealing with Fritz in Rheinsberg, this doesn't matter. Also, Hamilton has a fluent, and often amusing style.
Yep, I have been using it a reference for some of my Crown Prince research, if not to rely on facts then at least to orient myself on who the minor players are and what's going on.
There's just the occasional eyeroll inducing observation (Émilie is "greedy and selfish" when keeping Voltaire from Fritz, dontcha know, for example)
Hahaha, well, remember! Fritz is not the other man in this relationship, he is Der einzige Mann.
while otoh there's a lovely write up about Fritz/Suhm (though not as lovely as Mildred's, naturally).
Thank you. :) I drew partly on this volume (for things like FW and his sudden love of syllogisms), but mostly on the correspondence.
Though you may raise an eyebrow or two when he assures us that Fritz totally intended to live happily after with Elisabeth Christine.
Not only did I raise an eyebrow, I mocked him anonymously in my no homo write-up.
Just for the record, no one is gay in my volumes. Certainly not Fritz the chill. Heinrich might be, I'm using some coded language here, but mostly these favourites are examples of his inner weakness. Not at all comparable to those wonderful friendships mentioned in volume 1! Warped guy will have his favourites, what can I say.
OMGGGG, the double standards, they boggle! Wow, Hamilton, you're even better at double standards than Fritz, who thinks other people's grief isn't real if it's too showy, and Wilhelmine is too quick to worry about being forgotten.
(Can't help pointing out that Fritz's favorites were better, though. :P)
Andrew Hamilton, Brit or American (couldn't tell):
Based on the -our spellings and the book being published in London, I'm going to guess Brit.
In conclusion: read the first volume for your Rheinsberg research, skip the second.
Exactly what I had been doing, but now I'm doing it on principle instead of because I'm more into researching the boyfriends (hi, Suhm!) than the family. I put up volume 2 mostly for you. So thank you for the warning! And the informative and entertaining write-up, as always. :D
Re: Andrew Hamilton: Rheinsberg
OMFG, that is some dishonest scholarship right there. At least I think MacDonogh's "source doesn't actually say that" errors are due to incompetence, not malice.
Fritz: is strict but fair with the casheering.
AW: goes home in even more defeatist gloom and dies.
(Any intermittent verbal abuse by Fritz via correspondance, or refusal to see AW? Does not happen.)
Sadly, this is more or less MacDonogh, over 100 years later.
leaves entirely out anything that makes Fritz sound bad, i.e., the majority of the letter
*spit-take* Yeah, you'd have to! Mind you, we've seen there's kind of an amazing amount of this kind of selectiveness in Preuss's choices for what to include as well.
Since I've got Agatha Christie on the brain: come on, people, if the fact will not fit the theory (Fritz was chill), you let the theory go, not the facts!
Foreign diplomacy? Eh. Heinrich travelled to Sweden just for family reasons, and then Fritz had to practically force him to go to Catherine next, and then he just got feted there, and fine, he and Catherine got along really well, but politically all the action was between Fritz and Catherine and Heinrich was just sort of there. And later he had to be practically forced to go to Russia again.
OMG.
I am very annoyed that I hadn't heard about the invitation earlier; I could have familiarized you with so many issues before hand.
Haha. He could have Fritzplained so many things, Heinrich!
Also: Heinrich's entire foreign policy, says Hamilton, can be summed up by "alliance with France" (since comments on Russia and Sweden on his part do not exist in Hamilton's world, neither before nor after Fritz' death), and the sole reason why he was advising this even post revolution was because he was such a Francophile that even a French Revolution was okay by him.
Okaaaay. I'm with you that both AW and Heinrich learned a thing or two about the downsides of absolute monarchy even in a financially solvent country.
Now, in the first volume, dealing with Fritz in Rheinsberg, this doesn't matter. Also, Hamilton has a fluent, and often amusing style.
Yep, I have been using it a reference for some of my Crown Prince research, if not to rely on facts then at least to orient myself on who the minor players are and what's going on.
There's just the occasional eyeroll inducing observation (Émilie is "greedy and selfish" when keeping Voltaire from Fritz, dontcha know, for example)
Hahaha, well, remember! Fritz is not the other man in this relationship, he is Der einzige Mann.
while otoh there's a lovely write up about Fritz/Suhm (though not as lovely as Mildred's, naturally).
Thank you. :) I drew partly on this volume (for things like FW and his sudden love of syllogisms), but mostly on the correspondence.
Though you may raise an eyebrow or two when he assures us that Fritz totally intended to live happily after with Elisabeth Christine.
Not only did I raise an eyebrow, I mocked him anonymously in my no homo write-up.
Just for the record, no one is gay in my volumes. Certainly not Fritz the chill. Heinrich might be, I'm using some coded language here, but mostly these favourites are examples of his inner weakness. Not at all comparable to those wonderful friendships mentioned in volume 1! Warped guy will have his favourites, what can I say.
OMGGGG, the double standards, they boggle! Wow, Hamilton, you're even better at double standards than Fritz, who thinks other people's grief isn't real if it's too showy, and Wilhelmine is too quick to worry about being forgotten.
(Can't help pointing out that Fritz's favorites were better, though. :P)
Andrew Hamilton, Brit or American (couldn't tell):
Based on the -our spellings and the book being published in London, I'm going to guess Brit.
In conclusion: read the first volume for your Rheinsberg research, skip the second.
Exactly what I had been doing, but now I'm doing it on principle instead of because I'm more into researching the boyfriends (hi, Suhm!) than the family. I put up volume 2 mostly for you. So thank you for the warning! And the informative and entertaining write-up, as always. :D