Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 39

[cahn]

Last post, along with the usual 18th-century suspects, included the Ottonians; changing ideas of conception and women's sexual pleasure; Isabella of Parma (the one who fell in love, and vice versa, with her husband's sister); Henry IV and Bertha (and Henry's second wife divorcing him for "unspeakable sexual acts"). (Okay, Isabella of Parma was 18th century.)

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Re: Mitchell backstory

[mildred_of_midgard]

I agree the situation was terrible! That poor girl.

(I am reminded, stepping outside our fandom for a minute, of how one of the Antarctic explorers who died with Scott, Lawrence Oates, was found recently to have fathered a child on some 11 year-old Scottish girl before setting off to the South Pole. Disappointingly few 21st century journalists were willing to call a spade a child rape, instead of going "he never knew he was a father" or something saccharine like that. Wikipedia at least has the decency.)