Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 48

[cahn]

Some awesome historical RPF candyheartsex stories for meeeeee (or by me, in one tiny case) with historical characters! I'm just going to note whom the stories are about here. They are all so good!!

Anne Boleyn/Catherine of Aragorn
Frances Howard and Frances Coke (or: James I's court was basically a HOTBED of scandal, omg)

And two that are also historical RPF but also consistent with the Jude Morgan novel The King's Touch, which is an excellent historical novel narrated by James ("Jemmy") Scott, Duke of Monmouth, Charles II's illegitimate son.

Princess Henrietta of England (Charles II's sister and wife of Philippe I duc d'Orleans)
James of Monmouth/William/Mary

Comments

Re: "He, too, is Alexander?": Mildred and Methodology

[mildred_of_midgard]

BTW, having been in Sanssouci recently, I can say that they have the Dirk Fahlenkamp edition of the Fredersdorf letters on sale, so clearly there is a market for Fredersdorf related stuff!

Oh, I think there's a market for books on Frederick the Great for the general reading public, which is why I'm thinking of writing a book on Frederick (and Alexander) for the general reading public! I'm just not sure about the market for articles on Fredersdorf for academics. Every journal I've looked at that seemed promising ended up wanting articles that had some deeper import, theory or sociology or broad German history or something, no room for "Hey, cool fact I figured out" articles. But I'm still going to have go on a quest for someone to publish about Peter, so maybe I'll find a Fredersdorf venue. :D (I'm still kind of excited about the book prospect, though.)

I'll never get over the fact that "Stop trusting Catt!" was something freaking Koser already demonstrated more than a century ago and everyone could have drawn the consequences thereof if only they'd read his freaking preface!

Right?! Well, this is why it needs to go in. That reminds me, I wanted to read Voltaire's memoirs and Catt's memoirs in French and do a bit of compare-and-contrast, since I did find that one line that looks suspiciously plagiarized by Catt. Let me think about this...it'll probably be a month at this rate before I finish Dubois, given the work project for the next 4 weeks, and then if I have some free time, my French might be good enough to do Voltaire in a reasonable amount of time. Then I can just drag out Catt for the rest of the year at this rate. :P So maybe that's what I should do next.

ETA: I have not forgotten that I owe salon a summary of Magnan's take on Pamela, a chief reason for learning French. :) I still think ordering and reading Magnan will happen one day, I just don't know when.

Anyway, yes, we have collected many a good example for your overall point in salon. Including, as you mention, the many different takes on what exactly Glasow did and didn't do! (To which the letters to Fredersdorf have now added new info.)

Exactly! It's time for a new publication.

Keep nagging, folks! It's the only way. :D

Re: "He, too, is Alexander?": Mildred and Methodology

[cahn]

I am totally going to nag you to read Voltaire's memoirs! :D