This was one of the guys where EC got the Terrible Horrible Condolence Letters (TM) when he died, right?
No, those were Franz and Albert. Ferd(inand) survived, won fame in the war, and was the recipient of most of EC's letters home from her time as Crown Princess onwards. (Which change from "omg, my new husband is the best ever, I'm so in love!" to "I'm sitting like a prisoner here while everyone else is off to the countryside" to "...and now me and Louise didn't even get a condolence letter!"
The reviews of the 2007 publication: they're basically all advertising by "come for the two Fritz is rude to EC stories, stay for the Prussian court gossip, pen portraits of personalities and vivid descripton of the homefront in the 7 Years War". Now if it were me, I'd use the "stay for the "Heinrich and me: A Rokoko Queer As Folk AU" pitch, but hey...
More depressingly, I suspect several factors coming into play here, among these: a) potential readers only casually interested in Frederick the Great before reading the diaries might hardly remember he had siblings other than Wilhelmine, and b) among readers who are well versed enough in their Prussian history to be able to list most of Fritz' important battles in correct chronological order and know their Ziethen from their Seydlitz, there's probably a sizable continget who are still in homophobic denial and the type to write indignant "it was all Voltaire's slander!" comments. I doubt your avarage newspaper reviewer is aware there's a thriving Fritz slash fandom who'd be into a bi chamberlain in love with his younger brother.
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Re: Peter-Michael Hahn
Date: 2020-03-03 07:27 pm (UTC)This was one of the guys where EC got the Terrible Horrible Condolence Letters (TM) when he died, right?
No, those were Franz and Albert. Ferd(inand) survived, won fame in the war, and was the recipient of most of EC's letters home from her time as Crown Princess onwards. (Which change from "omg, my new husband is the best ever, I'm so in love!" to "I'm sitting like a prisoner here while everyone else is off to the countryside" to "...and now me and Louise didn't even get a condolence letter!"
The reviews of the 2007 publication: they're basically all advertising by "come for the two Fritz is rude to EC stories, stay for the Prussian court gossip, pen portraits of personalities and vivid descripton of the homefront in the 7 Years War". Now if it were me, I'd use the "stay for the "Heinrich and me: A Rokoko Queer As Folk AU" pitch, but hey...
More depressingly, I suspect several factors coming into play here, among these: a) potential readers only casually interested in Frederick the Great before reading the diaries might hardly remember he had siblings other than Wilhelmine, and b) among readers who are well versed enough in their Prussian history to be able to list most of Fritz' important battles in correct chronological order and know their Ziethen from their Seydlitz, there's probably a sizable continget who are still in homophobic denial and the type to write indignant "it was all Voltaire's slander!" comments. I doubt your avarage newspaper reviewer is aware there's a thriving Fritz slash fandom who'd be into a bi chamberlain in love with his younger brother.