Royal Reader is fast as always! Thank you for this.
ETA: it also shows that the "Fritz cried at Mitchell's funeral" story which partly still makes it into modern biographies is a fabrication with no contemporary evidence;
Huuuhh. I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but this is so random I wasn't expecting it. What was it cahn said recently, "EVERYTHING IS UNRELIABLE"?
even undoctored Thiebault is not exactly Mr. Reliable in matters Mitchell.he, too, hasn't read Koser's Catt-demolishing preface by taking the memoirs as utterly reliable and proving Catt's closeness to Fritz.
*facepalm*
(Perhaps he's only read Rosebery's translation?)
Perhaps! (Rosebery writes the introduction, btw; the translator is one F.S. Flint.) The second paragraph of Rosebery's intro opens with:
Catt's narrative is one of the most faithful portraits of that monarch that we possess.
GAH. *more facepalming* So what I'm getting out of this is that it's high time for a scholarly article on why Catt can't be trusted! Let me finish learning German, read Koser's preface, learn French, read Catt's memoirs and Voltaire's back-to-back and see if I can spot any more potential plagiarisms (and of course read the diary), and then see if I feel like writing an essay. We would be doing the field a service!
So what I'm getting out of this is that it's high time for a scholarly article on why Catt can't be trusted! Let me finish learning German, read Koser's preface, learn French, read Catt's memoirs and Voltaire's back-to-back and see if I can spot any more potential plagiarisms (and of course read the diary), and then see if I feel like writing an essay. We would be doing the field a service!
Well, I'm planning on doing all of the steps listed before the essay, so...we'll see if that translates into an article! (Scholarly articles are like fanfics for me: I have 1,000 ideas, of which 50 make it into notes and outlines and snippets in my drafts folders, of which 5 make it to academic journals or AO3, respectively. Rheinsberg is much easier. ;) )
I will at least tell you guys if I find any more overlap between Catt and Voltaire, though. It'll be good for my French, and I'm curious!
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Re: Andrew Mitchell PhD thesis
Date: 2021-02-20 02:02 pm (UTC)ETA: it also shows that the "Fritz cried at Mitchell's funeral" story which partly still makes it into modern biographies is a fabrication with no contemporary evidence;
Huuuhh. I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but this is so random I wasn't expecting it. What was it
even undoctored Thiebault is not exactly Mr. Reliable in matters Mitchell.he, too, hasn't read Koser's Catt-demolishing preface by taking the memoirs as utterly reliable and proving Catt's closeness to Fritz.
*facepalm*
(Perhaps he's only read Rosebery's translation?)
Perhaps! (Rosebery writes the introduction, btw; the translator is one F.S. Flint.) The second paragraph of Rosebery's intro opens with:
Catt's narrative is one of the most faithful portraits of that monarch that we possess.
GAH. *more facepalming* So what I'm getting out of this is that it's high time for a scholarly article on why Catt can't be trusted! Let me finish learning German, read Koser's preface, learn French, read Catt's memoirs and Voltaire's back-to-back and see if I can spot any more potential plagiarisms (and of course read the diary), and then see if I feel like writing an essay. We would be doing the field a service!
Re: Andrew Mitchell PhD thesis
Date: 2021-02-20 06:06 pm (UTC)DOOOO IT! Please!
Re: Andrew Mitchell PhD thesis
Date: 2021-02-20 06:14 pm (UTC)I will at least tell you guys if I find any more overlap between Catt and Voltaire, though. It'll be good for my French, and I'm curious!