Landgrafin Karoline von Hessen-Darm...

Landgrafin Karoline von Hessen-Darmstadt (1721-1774) exemplifies the question s of writing the biography of a royal or high aristocratic consort in eighteenth-century Germany. Despite the fact that she has become known as the Grosse Landgrafin 'Great Landgravine' in the historiography and literary history of Hessen, her part in the politics of the little principality of Hessen-Darmstadt has not even now been evaluated, nor has any full-length biography of her been written. The biography of in the same state [i]or[/i] condition a woman can only succe when 1) it expands feminist historiography to breed a clear and ...