18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 32

[cahn]

:) Still talking about Charles XII of Sweden / the Great Northern War and the Stuarts and the Jacobites, among other things!

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Re: Responses to luzula from last post

[luzula]

Oh, how interesting! That certainly is evidence that it's not something made up much later, anyway. No, of course we don't mind it. : )

I've never plowed the whole of The Lyon in Mourning, just parts of it. Maybe I should go back to it...and by the way, check out the footnote on the page just previous to that! Broster used those exact words about the prospects of appealing to the Duke of Argyll. : ) Interesting that it was in actual history another Campbell pleading with him for Archie's life, and taking the role that Ewen takes in GitN.

Re: Responses to luzula from last post

[regshoe]

Aha, later on in the same volume there's (what is supposedly) a letter from the Prince himself saying that he'd converted.

There's all sorts of interesting stuff in there... Ooh, yes, that footnote about the Duke of Argyll is good—Broster definitely read The Lyon in Mourning, I wonder if that's where she got the idea for that bit in GitN!

Re: Responses to luzula from last post

[luzula]

Oooh, thanks for your detective work! That's great. \o/

Re: Responses to luzula from last post

[cahn]

Ooooh this is amazing, thank you! Though does it seem a bit, idk, wound about with protestations that it Really Truly Is From the Prince No Really to you? Still, that plus Archibald Cameron's source does make it seem at the very least plausible!

Re: Responses to luzula from last post

[regshoe]

Hmm, possibly! Forbes is usually pretty scrupulous about his sources (he'll compare different accounts of the same event, note contradictions and gaps and try to figure out the truth, and so on), and all the Really Truly stuff could come from that attitude of wanting to be very clear about accuracy—but I agree it's slightly doubtful.