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Landgrafin Karoline of Hessen-Darmstadt: Epistolary Politics and the Problems of Consort Biography
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 27, Number 3, Summer 2004
- pp. 535-553
- 10.1353/bio.2004.0066
- Article
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Karoline of Hessen-Darmstadt exemplifies the problems in writing the biography of a royal or high aristocratic consort in eighteenth-century Germany. Such a biography can only succeed if it deploys feminist historiography; takes seriously the correspondence of the consort as a historiographical source, and also takes seriously marriage politics as an important aspect of foreign politics.