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mildred_of_midgard ([personal profile] mildred_of_midgard) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2021-07-31 01:44 pm (UTC)

Re: The First Iron Lady: A life of Caroline of Ansbach - I: Cinderella

Maybe, and thank you for reassuring me I wasn't misremembering everything

I was reassuring myself, as well! I knew all the modern bios have it that way, but I had go to chase down primary sources to make sure it wasn't another case of Robert Keith.

(c1 - I had forgotten, but the book reminded me again - the Liliputians from "Gullivers Travels" would have been understood by Swifts contemporaries as a satire on all the small German principalities, especially Hannnover.)

Ahhh, thank you for this! *If* I ever learned this, it was before I had any context on the HRE or small German principalities, so I promptly forgot it.

Caroline then nicknamed the Churchills "the Imperial family".

Lol, yeah, I can see it.

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