Speaking of reading non-German books, I've finished "Domestic Enemies", and it is indeed very good. (Though I suspect only partly applicable to the German states within the same period.)
Indeed, which is why all my beta emails to cahn were heavily caveated with "This is France! The author even points out that England and Italy and the Netherlands were different! And who even knows with FW and SD. Expectations for servants probably changed depending on who was in residence on a given day!"
And hooray on you reading a book featuring my guy Boswell (among others)!
I have to admit the author doooooes noooot like Boswell. Well, as an author, yes. But as a person, not so much.
you might say I know the cast. *g*)
And quite an extensive cast it is! Boswell and Johnson, of course, but also Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, Frances Reynolds, Thomas Sheridan, Elizabeth Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Fanny Burney, Hester Thrales, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, Charlotte Lennox, and others.
So far, Garrick is my favorite. The history of acting was *fascinating*.
Re: Oster Wilhelmine readthrough
Indeed, which is why all my beta emails to
And hooray on you reading a book featuring my guy Boswell (among others)!
I have to admit the author doooooes noooot like Boswell. Well, as an author, yes. But as a person, not so much.
you might say I know the cast. *g*)
And quite an extensive cast it is! Boswell and Johnson, of course, but also Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, Frances Reynolds, Thomas Sheridan, Elizabeth Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Fanny Burney, Hester Thrales, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, Charlotte Lennox, and others.
So far, Garrick is my favorite. The history of acting was *fascinating*.