Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 42

[cahn]

Last post, we had (among other things) Danish kings and their favorites; Louis XIV and Philippe d'Orléans; reviews of a very shippy book about Katte, a bad Jacobite novel, and a great book about clothing; a fic about Émilie du Châtelet and Voltaire; and a review of a set of entertaining Youtube history videos about Frederick the Great.

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Re: Augustus Hervey I: Men, Women and Herveys

[mildred_of_midgard]

...what. Is it possible to find out more about this guy??

It is! As always when I suggest books sight unseen, there's a risk it's terrible/boring/inaccurate, but the Stabi has a copy of The mitred earl: an 18th-century eccentric, by Brian Fothergill, 1974.