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Posthumous Fame and Writing of the Self by the "Great" Landgrafin Karoline of Hessen-Darmstadt
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 27, Number 3, Summer 2004
- pp. 554-574
- 10.1353/bio.2004.0073
- Article
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This article deals with the contradictions imposed on Landgräfin Karoline of Hessen-Darmstadt, as the "Great Landgräfin" was torn between two completely different aims: to save her dynasty by means of her marriage politics; or to proceed in self-enlightenment by writing and reading, especially the philosophers of her time.